fire warden

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   an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest

   Synonymsforest fire fighterranger

   Broaderofficialfireman

   Narrowercoyote

Questions about fire warden

What does fire warden mean?

fire warden means "an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest".

What is another word for fire warden?

Close synonyms include forest fire fighter, ranger. 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 warden a common word?

fire warden 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.