fighter
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- 2A war plane made mainly to shoot down other planes, and sometimes to attack things on the ground.
Two fighters flew low over the city during the parade.
She learned to fly a fighter when she joined the air force.
- 3A person who boxes or does a martial art such as judo or karate.
The two fighters touched gloves before the first round.
She trained for years to become a professional fighter.
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- 7A video game that is mainly about characters fighting each other.
My brother plays fighters with his friends every weekend.
This new fighter has more than forty characters to choose from.
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- 8In science fiction stories, a small spaceship made for fighting, like a fighter plane in space.
The pilot jumped into her fighter and raced toward the enemy spaceship.
Dozens of fighters flew out of the huge space station.
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- 9A firefighter, someone whose job is to put out fires.
The fighters had the kitchen fire out in ten minutes.
Every fighter at the station knows how to use the ladder truck.
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Origin
From Old English feohtere; it is fight + -er.