FIREFIGHTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does firefighter mean? 

• FIREFIGHTER (noun)
  The noun FIREFIGHTER has 1 sense:

1. a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires

  Familiarity information: FIREFIGHTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIREFIGHTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fire-eater; fire fighter; firefighter; fireman

Hypernyms ("firefighter" is a kind of...):

defender; guardian; protector; shielder (a person who cares for persons or property)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "firefighter"):

fire chief; fire marshal (the head of a fire department)

fire warden; forest fire fighter; ranger (an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest)

Holonyms ("firefighter" is a member of...):

fire department (the department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires)

 Context examples 

The results are providing real-time information, such as vertical wind profiles, to firefighters battling blazes.

(Researchers discover how wildfires create their own weather, National Science Foundation)

About 280 firefighters were battling the blazes while 22,000 homes were without power in the region after the high winds brought down trees.

(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)