See informant on Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "confidential informant"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "inform",
"3": "ant"
},
"expansion": "inform + -ant",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From inform + -ant.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "informants",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "informant (plural informants)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "traitor"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "name names"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"verb"
],
"word": "rat out"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "gossiper"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club:",
"text": "One of her chief informants is Alicent’s handmaiden Talya (Alexis Rabin), whose inside info runs so deep that she’s the first to catch wind of Viserys’ death.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer."
],
"id": "en-informant-en-noun-hpc1JBiq",
"links": [
[
"relay",
"relay"
],
[
"confidential",
"confidential"
],
[
"information",
"information"
],
[
"police",
"police"
],
[
"informer",
"informer"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "muḵbir",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مُخْبِر"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "muḵbira",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "مُخْبِرة"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "infarmátar",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "інфарма́тар"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "infarmátarka",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "інфарма́тарка"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "donósnik",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "доно́сник"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "donósnica",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "доно́сница"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "donósnička",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "доно́сничка"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "informátor",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "информа́тор"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "informátorka",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "информа́торка"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tígōng xiāoxī de rén",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "提供消息的人"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gàomìzhě",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "告密者"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "線人"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiànrén",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "线人"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "舉報人"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jǔbàorén",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "举报人"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "檢舉人"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎnjǔrén",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "检举人"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informátor"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "informátorka"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "informant"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "informanto"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "informantti"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "ilmiantaja"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informateur"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "informatrice"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Informant"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Informantin"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pliroforiodótis",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πληροφοριοδότης"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "sukophántēs",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "συκοφάντης"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "רֶגֶל"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "besúgó"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "delatore"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informatore"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "spia"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"alt": "じょうほうていきょうしゃ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jōhō teikyōsha",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "情報提供者"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "infōmanto",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "インフォーマント"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "agadar",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "ئاگادار"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dēlātor"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kodoš",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кодош"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "doušnik",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "доушник"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "kaiwhāki"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "kaiwhakaatu"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "melda"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informator"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "informatorka"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "informante"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "delator"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informator"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "informatoare"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "osvedomítelʹ",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "осведоми́тель"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "osvedomítelʹnica",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "осведоми́тельница"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "informátor",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "информа́тор"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informátor"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "informátorka"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "informante"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "tagahimaton"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "impormante"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "informátor",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "інформа́тор"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 18",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "informátorka",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "інформа́торка"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "en:Linguistics",
"parents": [
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "27 73",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 73",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ant",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 77",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "28 72",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 5 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 77",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Belarusian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 79",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 88",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Central Kurdish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 77",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Danish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 84",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 79",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 77",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 76",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 79",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Maori translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 88",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Old English translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "22 78",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "25 75",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 79",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 76",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Slovak translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 81",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "22 78",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 79",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 81",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Espionage",
"orig": "en:Espionage",
"parents": [
"Deception",
"Secrecy",
"Security",
"Ethics",
"Human behaviour",
"Society",
"Philosophy",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics:",
"text": "The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant's grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in machine translation, page 116:",
"text": "The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"id": "en-informant-en-noun-81RWa~Gt",
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"native speaker",
"native speaker"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"pronunciation",
"pronunciation"
],
[
"grammaticality",
"grammaticality"
],
[
"well-formedness",
"well-formedness"
],
[
"context",
"context"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference",
"word": "informantti"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference",
"word": "adatközlő"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference",
"word": "adatszolgáltató"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈfɔːmənt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈfɔɹmənt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-informant.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-informant.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-informant.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-informant.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-informant.wav.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "abaddon"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "accuser"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "beefer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "bewrayer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "bigmouth"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "blabber"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "blabtale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "blabtongue"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "canary"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "CI"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"US",
"rare",
"slang"
],
"word": "finger"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "fink"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"word": "fizgig"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "gossip"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "grass"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "informant"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "informer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "jurat"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "leak"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "mole"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "narc"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "nark"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"UK",
"slang"
],
"word": "nonce"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "outer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "peacher"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "quisling"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "rat"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "ratfink"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"slang"
],
"word": "rooster"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "sneak"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "snitch"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "snout"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "squealer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "state's evidence"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "stooge"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "stool pigeon"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "stoolie"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "supergrass"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "sycophant"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "tattler"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "tattletale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "telltale tit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "telltale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"Ireland"
],
"word": "tout"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "whistleblower"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"informant"
],
"word": "informant"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "gerund"
},
"expansion": "informant",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Catalan entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 5 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "informar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"gerund of informar"
],
"id": "en-informant-ca-verb-JGdDPtr7",
"links": [
[
"informar",
"informar#Catalan"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund"
]
}
],
"word": "informant"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Borrowed, more probably from French or German than from English due to the word's ultimate stress.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "informanten",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "informantje",
"tags": [
"diminutive",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "-en",
"3": "+"
},
"expansion": "informant m (plural informanten, diminutive informantje n)",
"name": "nl-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"in‧for‧mant"
],
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 5 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"informer, informant"
],
"id": "en-informant-nl-noun-HLBVK-c4",
"links": [
[
"informer",
"informer"
],
[
"informant",
"informant#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌɪn.fɔrˈmɑnt/"
},
{
"audio": "Nl-informant.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/41/Nl-informant.ogg/Nl-informant.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Nl-informant.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑnt"
}
],
"word": "informant"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "present participle"
},
"expansion": "informant",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 5 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "informer"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle of informer"
],
"id": "en-informant-fr-verb-eX4k9RSR",
"links": [
[
"informer",
"informer#French"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"word": "informant"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "īnfōrmant",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "verb form",
"head": "īnfōrmant"
},
"expansion": "īnfōrmant",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 5 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "īnfōrmō"
}
],
"glosses": [
"third-person plural present active indicative of īnfōrmō"
],
"id": "en-informant-la-verb-9GA4C66C",
"links": [
[
"īnfōrmō",
"informo#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"form-of",
"indicative",
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "informant"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "gerund"
},
"expansion": "informant",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Catalan entries with incorrect language header",
"Catalan gerunds",
"Catalan non-lemma forms",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "informar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"gerund of informar"
],
"links": [
[
"informar",
"informar#Catalan"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund"
]
}
],
"word": "informant"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Borrowed, more probably from French or German than from English due to the word's ultimate stress.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "informanten",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "informantje",
"tags": [
"diminutive",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "-en",
"3": "+"
},
"expansion": "informant m (plural informanten, diminutive informantje n)",
"name": "nl-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"in‧for‧mant"
],
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"Dutch lemmas",
"Dutch masculine nouns",
"Dutch nouns",
"Dutch nouns with plural in -en",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɑnt"
],
"glosses": [
"informer, informant"
],
"links": [
[
"informer",
"informer"
],
[
"informant",
"informant#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌɪn.fɔrˈmɑnt/"
},
{
"audio": "Nl-informant.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/41/Nl-informant.ogg/Nl-informant.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Nl-informant.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑnt"
}
],
"word": "informant"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ant",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Belarusian translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Central Kurdish translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Old English translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"en:Espionage",
"en:People"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "confidential informant"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "inform",
"3": "ant"
},
"expansion": "inform + -ant",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From inform + -ant.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "informants",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "informant (plural informants)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "traitor"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "name names"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"verb"
],
"word": "rat out"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "gossiper"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club:",
"text": "One of her chief informants is Alicent’s handmaiden Talya (Alexis Rabin), whose inside info runs so deep that she’s the first to catch wind of Viserys’ death.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer."
],
"links": [
[
"relay",
"relay"
],
[
"confidential",
"confidential"
],
[
"information",
"information"
],
[
"police",
"police"
],
[
"informer",
"informer"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Linguistics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics:",
"text": "The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant's grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in machine translation, page 116:",
"text": "The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"native speaker",
"native speaker"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"pronunciation",
"pronunciation"
],
[
"grammaticality",
"grammaticality"
],
[
"well-formedness",
"well-formedness"
],
[
"context",
"context"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈfɔːmənt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈfɔɹmənt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-informant.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-informant.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-informant.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-informant.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-informant.wav.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "abaddon"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "accuser"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "beefer"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "bewrayer"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "bigmouth"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "blabber"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "blabtale"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "blabtongue"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "canary"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "CI"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"US",
"rare",
"slang"
],
"word": "finger"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "fink"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"word": "fizgig"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "gossip"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "grass"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "informant"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "informer"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "jurat"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "leak"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "mole"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "narc"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "nark"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"UK",
"slang"
],
"word": "nonce"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "outer"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "peacher"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "quisling"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "rat"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "ratfink"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"slang"
],
"word": "rooster"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "sneak"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "snitch"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "snout"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "squealer"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "state's evidence"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "stooge"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "stool pigeon"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "stoolie"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "supergrass"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "sycophant"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "tattler"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "tattletale"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "telltale tit"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "telltale"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"tags": [
"Ireland"
],
"word": "tout"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:informant",
"word": "whistleblower"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "muḵbir",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مُخْبِر"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "muḵbira",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "مُخْبِرة"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "infarmátar",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "інфарма́тар"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "infarmátarka",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "інфарма́тарка"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "donósnik",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "доно́сник"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "donósnica",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "доно́сница"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "donósnička",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "доно́сничка"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "informátor",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "информа́тор"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "informátorka",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "информа́торка"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tígōng xiāoxī de rén",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "提供消息的人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gàomìzhě",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "告密者"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "線人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiànrén",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "线人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "舉報人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jǔbàorén",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "举报人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "檢舉人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎnjǔrén",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "检举人"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informátor"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "informátorka"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "informant"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "informanto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "informantti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "ilmiantaja"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informateur"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "informatrice"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Informant"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Informantin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pliroforiodótis",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πληροφοριοδότης"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "sukophántēs",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "συκοφάντης"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "רֶגֶל"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "besúgó"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "delatore"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informatore"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "spia"
},
{
"alt": "じょうほうていきょうしゃ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jōhō teikyōsha",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "情報提供者"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "infōmanto",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "インフォーマント"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "agadar",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "ئاگادار"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dēlātor"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kodoš",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кодош"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "doušnik",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "доушник"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "kaiwhāki"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "kaiwhakaatu"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "melda"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informator"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "informatorka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "informante"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "delator"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informator"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "informatoare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "osvedomítelʹ",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "осведоми́тель"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "osvedomítelʹnica",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "осведоми́тельница"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "informátor",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "информа́тор"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "informátor"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "informátorka"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "informante"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "tagahimaton"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"word": "impormante"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "informátor",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "інформа́тор"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "informátorka",
"sense": "one who relays confidential information",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "інформа́торка"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference",
"word": "informantti"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference",
"word": "adatközlő"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference",
"word": "adatszolgáltató"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"informant"
],
"word": "informant"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "present participle"
},
"expansion": "informant",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French non-lemma forms",
"French present participles",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "informer"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle of informer"
],
"links": [
[
"informer",
"informer#French"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"word": "informant"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "īnfōrmant",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "verb form",
"head": "īnfōrmant"
},
"expansion": "īnfōrmant",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin verb forms",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "īnfōrmō"
}
],
"glosses": [
"third-person plural present active indicative of īnfōrmō"
],
"links": [
[
"īnfōrmō",
"informo#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"form-of",
"indicative",
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "informant"
}
Download raw JSONL data for informant meaning in All languages combined (18.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.