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noun a person who supplies information
noun someone who sees an event and reports what happened
originEtymology tree English inform Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English informant From inform + -ant.
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