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informant

[in-fawr-muhnt]

noun

a person who informs or gives information; informer.

a person who supplies social or cultural data in answer to the questions of an investigator.

Linguistics. a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language.

Origin:
1655–65; < Latin infōrmant- (stem of infōrmāns) present participle of infōrmāre. See inform¹, -ant

Can be confused: informant, informer.

Synonyms
1. source, adviser, tipster.

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to differ in a way that can serve to distinguish meanings: The sounds (p) and (b) contrast in the words ?pin? and ?bin?

characterized by the absence of a distinctive phonological feature, such as (p) in contrast to (b), which lacks the distinctive feature of voicing

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informant (ɪnˈfɔːmənt)

—n
	a person who gives information about a thing, a subject being studied, etc

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"There was another island visible ... but we learned afterward that it was not inhabited, had only been used as a pasture for cattle which summered in these woods, though our informant said that there was a hut on the mainland near the outlet of the lake. This unnaturally smooth-shaven, squarish spot, in the midst of the otherwise uninterrupted forest, only reminded us of how uninhabited the country was. You would sooner expect to meet with a bear than an ox in such a clearing. At any rate, it must have been a surprise to the bears when they came across it. Such, seen far or near, you know at once to be man's work, for Nature never does it. In order to let in the light to the earth as on a lake, he clears off the forest on the hillsides and plains, and sprinkles fine grass seed, like an enchanter, and so carpets the earth with a firm sward."

-Henry David Thoreau

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