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fire starter

fire starter is the alternative form of firestarter.

Meaning of firestarter

Noun

firestarter (plural firestarters)

  1. Someone who starts a fire or fires.
    • Near-synonyms: arsonist, firebug, fireraiser, pyromaniac, torch
    Antonyms:
    firefighter
  2. A tool used to start a fire; especially, a ferrocerium-and-steel set designed for camping, bushcraft, and so on.

Forms of fire starter

pluralfire starters

Questions about fire starter

What is fire starter the alternative form of?
Fire starter is the alternative form of firestarter.

Words near fire starter in the dictionary

  1. fire spear
  2. fire spears
  3. fire sprinkler
  4. fire sprinklers
  5. fire stairs
  6. fire starter
  7. fire station
  8. fire stations
  9. fire step
  10. fire steps
  11. fire stone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fire starter (page history and authors); firestarter (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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