Meaning

1 senses
  1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US)A motor truck that serves as firefighting apparatus (a fire appliance).

    Near-synonym: fire engine (often synonymous; sometimes precisely differentiated by equipment)

More definitions
  • any of various large trucks that carry firemen and equipment to the site of a fire

Examples

14 sentences
  1. Is that a fire truck?

    Це пожежна машина? — deniko

    ruЭто пожарная машина? — marafon

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  2. The fire had already gone out by the time the fire truck arrived.

  3. The house burned to the ground before the fire truck arrived.

    deDas Haus brannte nieder, bevor der Feuerwehrwagen kam. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Traditionally, fire trucks are usually red.

  5. Why are there fire trucks in front of our building?

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From fire + truck.

From fire + truck.

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Forms

plural: fire trucks
Singularfire truck
Pluralfire trucks

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Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of various large trucks that carry firemen and equipment to the site of a fire:fire engine

Word family

6 related words

See also

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