Meaning

9 senses
  1. A person who fights; a combatant.

    Kämpfer

    боре́цboréc

    боре́цьborécʹ

    someone who fights for a cause

  2. A warrior; a fighting soldier.

    Kämpfer, Krieger

    бое́цbojéc, во́инvóin

    боє́цьbojécʹ, воя́кvoják, во́їнvójin

    someone who fights (or is fighting)

  3. A pugnacious, competitive person.

    Kämpfer

    бое́цbojéc

  4. (poetic)A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.

  5. 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.

    Jäger, Jagdflugzeug

    истреби́тельistrebítelʹ

    вини́щувачvynýščuvač

  6. 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.

    (broadly)A starfighter

  7. A participant in boxing or any martial art.

    боре́цboréc, бое́цbojéc

  8. (colloquial)A firefighter.

  9. A game with a focus on physical combat.

Examples

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  1. You're still a fire fighter, aren't you?

    Ти й досі пожежник, так?

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  2. That fighter plane dropped a bomb.

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  3. You have always been a fighter.

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  4. Tom is a very good fighter.

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  5. Tom is a volunteer fire fighter.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
person who fights:
warrior:
aircraft type:
Русский
By meaning 3
person who fights:
warrior:
aircraft type:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
person who fights:
warrior:
aircraft type:

Origin

From Middle English fightere, feghtere, from Old English feohtere. Equivalent to fight + -

From Middle English fightere, feghtere, from Old English feohtere. Equivalent to fight + -er.

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