speaker vs informant

informant vs speaker

speaker and informant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
speaker	Yes	No	No	No
informant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, informant is a hyponym of speaker; that is, informant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than speaker:

speaker: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
informant: someone who sees an event and reports what happened

Other hyponyms of speaker include alliterator, caller-up, caller, phoner, telephoner, babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter, conversationalist, conversationist, schmoozer, dictator, drawler, driveller, jabberer, ejaculator, growler, asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner, lecturer, lisper, mentioner, motormouth, mumbler, murmurer, mutterer, narrator, storyteller, teller, orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker, prattler, ranter, raver, reciter, native speaker, stammerer, stutterer, stentor, talking head, venter, vociferator, voicer, wailer, whisperer, witness, witnesser.

speaker (noun)	informant (noun)
electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance	a person who supplies information
someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)	someone who sees an event and reports what happened

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