fireman

Other forms of fireman

plural

firemans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fireman

What does fireman mean?

fireman means "play in which children pretend to put out a fire". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fireman?

fireman has 2 syllables: fire-man. The stress falls on "fire". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪɹmən/.

What is another word for fireman?

Close synonyms include stoker, reliever, relief pitcher, firefighter, fire fighter. 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 fireman a common word?

fireman is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.