informant, source
(noun) a person who supplies information
witness, witnesser, informant
(noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened
Source: WordNet® 3.1
informant (plural informants)
One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
(linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
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Source: Wiktionary
In*form"ant, n. Etym: [L. informans, -antis, p.pr. of informare. See Inform, v. t.]
1. One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. [Obs.] Glanvill.
2. One who imparts information or instruction.
3. One who offers an accusation; an informer. See Informer. [Obs. or R.] It was the last evidence of the kind; the informant was hanged. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 January 2025
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
