fire chief

1. 1.

   the head of a fire department

   Synonymsfire marshal

   Broaderfireman

Questions about fire chief

What does fire chief mean?

fire chief means "the head of a fire department".

What is another word for fire chief?

Close synonyms include fire marshal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fire chief a common word?

fire chief is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.