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fighter

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfaɪ.tə(ɹ)//
  • United States//ˈfaɪtɚ//
  • United States/[ˈfaɪ̯ɾɚ]/

A person who fights; a combatant.

noun

  1. 1

    A person who fights; a combatant.

  2. 2

    A warrior; a fighting soldier.

  3. 3

    A pugnacious, competitive person.

  4. 4

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

    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

  5. 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.

  6. 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. A starfighter

    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.

  7. 7

    A participant in boxing or any martial art.

  8. 8

    A firefighter.

  9. 9

    A game with a focus on physical combat.

    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.

Etymology

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

Forms

plural
fighters
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).