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informer
English
Alternative forms
- informor (obsolete, rare)
- informour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
inform +? -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(r)m?(r)
Noun
informer (plural informers)
- One who informs someone else about something.
- A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
- One who informs, animates, or inspires.
- 1729, Alexander Pope, Prologue to Sophonisba (by James Thomson
- Nature, informer of the poet's art.
- 1729, Alexander Pope, Prologue to Sophonisba (by James Thomson
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:informant
Translations
See also
- name names
Anagrams
- reinform, reniform
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?nf?rm?, ?nf?rm?re.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.f??.me/
Verb
informer
- to inform; to enlighten; to impart knowledge (upon)
- (reflexive) to inquire
Conjugation
Related terms
- information
- former
Further reading
- “informer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
?nf?rmer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ?nf?rm?
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
informer
- imperative of informere
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informed
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?f??md/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?f??md/
Etymology 1
inform +? -ed
Verb
informed
- simple past tense and past participle of inform
Adjective
informed (comparative more informed, superlative most informed)
- Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
- Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 696:
- Another informed and sobering estimate is that by 1800 indigenous populations in the western hemisphere were a tenth of what they had been three centuries before.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 696:
Translations
Etymology 2
in- +? formed the first sense probably uses in- (“in”), the second sense uses in- (“prefix of negation”).
Adjective
informed (comparative more informed, superlative most informed)
- (obsolete) Created, given form.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
- after Nilus invndation, / Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, / Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
- (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie
- But, mindfull still of your first countries sight
, Doe still preserve your first informed grace,
Whose shadow yet shynes in your beauteous face
- But, mindfull still of your first countries sight
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie
- (astronomy, obsolete) Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.
- the informed stars
Anagrams
- foremind, friendom
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