fight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fīt
ipa: /faɪt/
ipa: /faɪt/
ipa: [fʌɪt]
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: fights
Etymology: From Middle English fight, feyght, fiȝt, fecht, from Old English feoht, ġefeoht, from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtą, *gafehtą (“fight, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to struggle with”). Cognate with Dutch gevecht, German Gefecht.
Senses: examples: text: One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight.
glosses: An occasion of fighting.
glosses: A battle between opposing armies.
examples: text: Watch your language! Are you looking for a fight?
glosses: A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
examples: text: I’m going to Nick’s to watch the big fight tomorrow night.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A boxing or martial arts match.
examples: text: I’ll put up a fight to save this company.
text: ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs.
ref: 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
examples: text: That little guy has a bit of fight in him after all. As soon as he saw the size of his opponent, all the fight went out of him.
glosses: The will or ability to fight.
examples: text: Who ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […]
ref: 1673 May (first performance), John Dryden, Amboyna. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1673, →OCLC, Act III, page 31:
glosses: A screen for the combatants in ships; an arming.
Synonyms: word: fight
word: affray
word: dust-up
word: fracas
word: kerfuffle
word: ruckus
word: set to
word: set-to
word: stoush
Hyponyms: word: battle
word: brawl
word: combat
word: fistfight
word: fisticuffs
word: infight
word: domestic
word: barney
word: encounter
word: engagement
word: melee
word: punch-up
word: running fight
word: scrimmage
word: scuffle
word: skirmish
word: tussle
word: velitation
word: Armageddon
Derived terms: armored combat fight
armoured combat fight
banyan fight
bare-knuckle fight
barfight
befight
bitch fight
bitchfight
boodle fight
bossfight
bottle fight
bullfight
bun-fight
bun fight
cage fight
catfight
cat fight
chicken fight
cockfight
copyfight
couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery
dog-fight
dogfight
dog fight
dog in the fight
fext
fightback
fighter
fighting
fight IQ
fight-or-flight
fight or flight
fight scene
fight shy
fightsome
fight song
fight stick
fight the good fight
fight to the death
fight to the finish
fightwite
fightworthy
fighty
firefight
fist-fight
fist fight
fistfight
food fight
footfight
forfight
freedom fight
grog-fight
gunfight
handfight
handy-fight
have a dog in the fight
infight
knife fight
megafight
mud fight
paper fight
pick a fight
piefight
pillow fight
postfight
prefight
prize fight
prizefight
put up a fight
refight
running fight
sexfight
slap fight
snowball fight
snowfight
spoiling for a fight
straight fight
streetfight
street fight
superfight
sword fight
swordfight
tea fight
thumb fight
water fight
Related terms: word: clash
word: conflict
word: confrontation
word: contention
word: riot
word: altercation
word: dispute
word: commotion
word: disorder
word: combative
word: attack