fire fighter

1. 1.

   a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires

   Synonymsfiremanfirefighterfire-eater

   Broaderdefender

   Narrowerfire chieffire warden

   Part offire department

Questions about fire fighter

What does fire fighter mean?

fire fighter means "a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires".

What is another word for fire fighter?

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

fire fighter 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.