fire-eater

Questions about fire-eater

What does fire-eater mean?

fire-eater means "a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fire-eater?

fire-eater has 4 syllables: fi-re--ea-ter. The stress falls on "re-".

What is another word for fire-eater?

Close synonyms include fireman, firefighter, fire fighter, hothead, fire-swallower. 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-eater a common word?

fire-eater 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.