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fire fighter

fire fighter is the alternative form of firefighter.

Meaning of firefighter

Noun

firefighter (plural firefighters)

  1. A person who has been trained to put out fires.
    • A firefighter puts water on a burning tree as flames approach a containment line, while fighting the King fire near Fresh Pond, California. […] More than 4,000 firefighters have rushed to the scene from around the country deploying planes, helicopters and hundreds of thousands of gallons of water...2014 September 19, Andrew Gumbel, “California's burning up: firefighters rush to the scene as major wildfires scorch the state”, in The Guardian
    Antonyms:
    firestarter

Forms of fire fighter

pluralfire fighters

Questions about fire fighter

What is fire fighter the alternative form of?
Fire fighter is the alternative form of firefighter.

Words near fire fighter in the dictionary

  1. fire exits
  2. fire extinguisher
  3. fire extinguishers
  4. fire fan
  5. fire fans
  6. fire fighter
  7. fire fighters
  8. fire fighting
  9. fire finder
  10. fire finders
  11. fire flapper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fire fighter (page history and authors); firefighter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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