Word.ws English Dictionary

firetrap

firetrap noun: a building that is dangerously flammable and/or has limited emergency exits in which people would be trapped in the event of a fire.

Noun

firetrap (plural firetraps)

  1. (informal) A building that is dangerously flammable and/or has limited emergency exits in which people would be trapped in the event of a fire.

Forms of firetrap

pluralfiretraps

Origin of firetrap

From fire + trap.

Questions about firetrap

What does firetrap mean?
Firetrap means a building that is dangerously flammable and/or has limited emergency exits in which people would be trapped in the event of a fire.
What part of speech is firetrap?
Firetrap is a noun.
What is the plural of firetrap?
The plural of firetrap is firetraps.

Words near firetrap in the dictionary

  1. firethroat
  2. firethroats
  3. firetop
  4. firetrail
  5. firetrails
  6. firetrap
  7. firetraps
  8. firetrench
  9. firetrenches
  10. firetruck
  11. firetrucks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: firetrap (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “firetrap.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/firetrap. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.