| informant | | |
| n. (person) | 1. informant, source | a person who supplies information. |
| ~ communicator | a person who communicates with others. |
| ~ betrayer, blabber, informer, squealer, rat | one who reveals confidential information in return for money. |
| ~ leaker | a surreptitious informant.; "the president wanted to know who the leakers were" |
| ~ passive source | an informant who is not assigned to obtain specific intelligence but who routinely passes on whatever information he or she has. |
| ~ whistle-blower, whistle blower, whistleblower | an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it.; "the law gives little protection to whistleblowers who feel the public has a right to know what is going on"; "the whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions in mental hospitals" |
| n. (person) | 2. informant, witness, witnesser | someone who sees an event and reports what happened. |
| ~ beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient | a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses. |
| ~ attester, attestant | someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something. |
| ~ speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer, utterer | someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous).; "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims" |
| ~ deponent, deposer, testifier | a person who testifies or gives a deposition. |
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