fighter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English fightere, feghtere, from Old English feohtere. Equivalent to fight + -er.
Base: fight
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: fighters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who fights; a combatant.
pos: noun
gloss: A warrior; a fighting soldier.
pos: noun
gloss: A pugnacious, competitive person.
pos: noun
gloss: A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: 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
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: 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.
I toss around [37,654 tonne] dreadnoughts like they were fighters; dimly aware of the former crews being crushed to liquescence.
gloss: A participant in boxing or any martial art.
pos: noun
gloss: A firefighter.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A game with a focus on physical combat.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Synonyms: warrior
combatant
soldier
Related words: combatant
Derived words: fighter-bomber
fighter-interceptor
fighter plane
foo fighter
fighter jet
night fighter
stealth fighter
strike fighter
booze fighter
bullfighter
bushfighter
cage fighter
choose one's fighter
cockfighter
copyfighter
crimefighter
crime fighter
crime-fighter
deadline fighter
fighter ace
fighter aircraft
fighter bomber
fighteress
fighter pilot
fire fighter
fistfighter
forefighter
foreign fighter
freedom fighter
gunfighter
jet fighter
Nerdfighter
nonfighter
prize fighter
prizefighter
shootfighter
snowfighter
stick-fighter
street fighter
streetfighter
swordfighter
warfighter
wildfire-fighter
zero fighter
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: կործանիչ
roman: korcaničʻ
lang: Belarusian
word: знішча́льнік
roman: zniščálʹnik
lang: Bulgarian
word: изтреби́тел
roman: iztrebítel
lang: Catalan
word: caça
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 戰鬥機 /战斗机
roman: zhàndòujī
lang: Czech
word: stíhačka
lang: Czech
word: stíhací letoun
lang: Danish
word: kampfly
lang: Danish
word: jagerfly
lang: Dutch
word: gevechtsvliegtuig
lang: Dutch
word: jachtvliegtuig
lang: Dutch
word: jager
lang: Estonian
word: hävitaja
lang: Estonian
word: hävituslennuk
lang: Finnish
word: hävittäjä
lang: French
word: chasseur
lang: German
word: Jäger
lang: German
word: Jagdflugzeug
lang: Italian
word: caccia
lang: Marathi
word: लढाऊ विमान
roman: laḍhāū vimān
lang: Navajo
word: chidí naatʼaʼí dilwoʼí
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: jagerfly
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kampfly
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: jagarfly
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kampfly
lang: Persian
word: جنگنده
roman: jangande
lang: Polish
word: myśliwiec
lang: Polish
word: samolot myśliwski
lang: Portuguese
word: caça
lang: Romanian
word: avion de luptă
lang: Romanian
word: avion de vânătoare
lang: Russian
word: истреби́тель
roman: istrebítelʹ
lang: Slovak
word: stíhacie lietadlo
lang: Slovene
word: lovsko letalo
lang: Spanish
word: caza
lang: Swedish
word: jaktflygplan
lang: Turkish
word: avçı uçağı
lang: Ukrainian
word: вини́щувач
roman: vynýščuvač