| 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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