informant: Meaning and Definition of
in•form•ant
Pronunciation: (in-fôr'munt), [key] — n.
- a person who informs or gives information; informer.
- a person who supplies social or cultural data in answer to the questions of an investigator.
- a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language.
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