Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a fire department who fights fires.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person whose occupation it is to go to the scene of an unwanted fire and extinguish it; a member of a fire company; a
fireman{1} or a woman who fights fires.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who puts out fires.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
- noun a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
Etymologies
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Examples
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Being a cop or a firefighter is a FAR cry from elected officials.
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion. 2010
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Being a cop or a firefighter is a FAR cry from elected officials.
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion. 2010
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Eventually Callie must decide … which firefighter is the one that sets her heart on fire?
Diva Releases! 2009
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(Soundbite of bell) SAGAL: A Wisconsin firefighter said rescuing a nine-year-old boy from inside a claw machine was made difficult by the fact the boy was quote blank.
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"The average base salary for a Fairfax firefighter is $56,990 a year, compared with $52,754 for a police officer, according to county figures."
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The Home, a visceral horror thriller, unfolds after a firefighter is nearly killed during a failed rescue that leaves him physically and emotionally scarred.
Lord of the Rings-Sized Effects for Indie Horror Film, The Home « FirstShowing.net 2008
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A small town firefighter is investigating a series of arsons.
Up the Down Elevator 2008
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Today at Boing Boing Gadgets, we saw Samsung's Pixon camera-phone, a fakeleak of the new MacBook Pro, a robot communist firefighter from the 1930s, and a web server the size of a business card.
Boing Boing 2008
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The boost isn't quite as dramatic as it would seem, since rising prices and a fluctuating exchange rate have made comparisons difficult, but being a firefighter is now a well-paying job in Baghdad.
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If I set a building on fire and a firefighter is harmed, I am responsible for the harm to that person.
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