What does FIGHTER mean?

Definitions for FIGHTER
ˈfaɪ tərfight·er

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrappernoun

    someone who fights (or is fighting)

  2. fighter, fighter aircraft, attack aircraftnoun

    a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air

  3. champion, fighter, hero, paladinnoun

    someone who fights for a cause

GCIDE

  1. Fighternoun

    A boxer; a pugilist.

  2. Fighternoun

    A person with the determination and will to persist through great difficulty to achieve a goal; one with the courage to fight and resist an opponent, and to struggle with all one's powers.

  3. Fighternoun

    (Mil.) A military aircraft designed to seek out and destroy enemy aircraft; it is usually smaller and more maneuvarable than aircraft designed specifically for bombing. However, hybrid fighter-bomber aircraft that perform both functions also are used.

Wiktionary

  1. fighternoun

    A person who fights, a combatant.

  2. fighternoun

    A warrior; fighting soldier.

  3. fighternoun

    A pugnacious, competitive person.

  4. fighternoun

    A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is that of shooting down other aircraft. Some of these (Fighter-Attack or Attack aircraft) also have a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.

  5. fighternoun

    A boxer or participant in any martial art.

  6. fighternoun

    A game with a focus on physical combat.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Fighternoun

    Warriour; duellist.

    Etymology: from fight.

    I will return again into the house, and desire some conduct of the lady: I am no fighter. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

    O, ’tis the coldest youth upon a charge,
    The most deliberate fighter! John Dryden, All for Love.

Wikipedia

  1. Fighter

    "The Fighter is a song co-written and recorded by New Zealand-born Australian country music singer Keith Urban featuring Carrie Underwood as a duet. It was released on 6 February 2017 as the fifth and final single from Urban's 2016 album, Ripcord. Urban co-wrote and co-produced this song with busbee. The song has entered the record charts of Australia, Canada, the United States, Belgium, and Scotland, where it became Urban's first song to enter the Scottish and Belgian charts.

ChatGPT

  1. fighter

    A fighter is someone or something that shows endurance, courage, or determination, often by combating adversity, opposition, threats, or conflict. This can refer to a person involved in physical combat, such as a soldier or a professional boxer, as well as someone battling a disease, hardships, or advocating for a cause. A fighter can also refer to a type of combat aircraft designed to engage with enemy aircraft. The term underlines a sense of resilience and tenacity in the face of challenges.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fighternoun

    one who fights; a combatant; a warrior

  2. Etymology: [AS. feohtere.]

Wikidata

  1. Fighter

    The fighter is one of the standard playable character classes in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. A fighter is a versatile, weapons-oriented warrior who fights using skill, strategy and tactics. Fighter is a generic and broad class; individual fighters have diverse backgrounds and different styles. Bodyguards, adventurers, former soldiers, invading bandit kings, or master swordsmen are all fighters, yet they come from all walks of life and backgrounds and often find themselves on very different alignments, goals, and sides in a conflict. In the 4th edition, Fighters are Martial Defenders. Other martial oriented character classes include the warlord, ranger, and rogue. Other defenders include the paladin.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. fighter

    One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'FIGHTER' in Nouns Frequency: #2066

Anagrams for FIGHTER »

  1. freight

  2. refight

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of FIGHTER in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of FIGHTER in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of FIGHTER in a Sentence

  1. Eric Trappier:

    It has close strategic interests with some countries and so with a good fighter jet product as well then the stars align.

  2. Terry Gou:

    We are like an aircraft carrier taking a bunch of fighter jets.

  3. Chris Garver:

    As a foreign fighter would enter, they would screen them, figure out what languages they speak, assign them a job and then send them down into wherever they were going to go, be it into Syria or Iraq.

  4. Steve Warren:

    We believe the foreign fighter flow was 2,000 at one point and is now down to a quarter or less of that.

  5. Marvin Hagler:

    I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting, but I try not to look like it.

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