Noun: informant in'for-munt
- A person who supplies information
"The journalist protected the identity of her confidential informant";
- source
- Someone who sees an event and reports what happened
"The police interviewed the informant about the robbery";
- witness, witnesser [rare]
Derived forms: informants
Type of: beholder, communicator, observer, perceiver, percipient, speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser [Brit], verbalizer
Encyclopedia: Informant