fighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfaɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈfaɪ̯ɾɚ]
rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fighters
Etymology: From Middle English fightere, fyghtor, feghtere, feghtare, fiȝtare, fiȝtere, from Old English feohtere. Equivalent to fight + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who fights; a combatant.
glosses: A warrior; a fighting soldier.
glosses: A pugnacious, competitive person.
examples: text: Little weapons / Over the phone / They like to threaten / The life that I know / They say "Get over here and get into the ring" / But I'm not really much of a fighter
ref: 2011, Lenka, Ben H. Allen, “Roll with the Punches”, in Two, performed by Lenka:
glosses: A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.
glosses: A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
examples: text: Task Force 42 consisted of almost two dozen main line spinships, including the carriers Olympus Shadow and Neptune Station. Each of these can launch more than a hundred fighters or ALRs.
ref: 1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:
text: I toss around [37,654 tonne] dreadnoughts like they were fighters; dimly aware of the former crews being crushed to liquescence.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
A starfighter
glosses: A participant in boxing or any martial art.
glosses: A firefighter.
examples: text: Still, it's excellent software, especially for one-on-one fighting titles such as the King Of Fighters series, classic Street Fighter II variants, and newer one-on-one fighters such as Garou.
ref: 2004, Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks, page 59:
topics: video-games
glosses: A game with a focus on physical combat.
Synonyms: warrior
combatant
soldier
Derived terms: sense: aircraft
word: fighter-bomber
sense: aircraft
word: fighter-interceptor
sense: aircraft
word: fighter plane
sense: aircraft
word: foo fighter
sense: aircraft
word: fighter jet
sense: aircraft
word: night fighter
sense: aircraft
word: stealth fighter
sense: aircraft
word: strike fighter
word: booze fighter
word: bullfighter
word: bushfighter
word: cage fighter
word: choose one's fighter
word: cockfighter
word: copyfighter
word: crime fighter
word: crime-fighter
word: crimefighter
word: deadline fighter
word: fighter aircraft
word: fighter bomber
word: fighteress
word: fighter pilot
word: fire fighter
word: fistfighter
word: forefighter
word: foreign fighter
word: freedom fighter
word: gunfighter
word: jet fighter
word: Nerdfighter
word: nonfighter
word: prizefighter
word: prize fighter
word: shootfighter
word: snowfighter
word: stick-fighter
word: street fighter
word: streetfighter
word: swordfighter
word: warfighter
word: wildfire-fighter
word: zero fighter
Related terms: combatant