firefighter
Pluralfirefighters
- 1A person who has been trained to extinguish fires.
A firefighter climbed onto the roof to reach the spreading flames.
The crew of firefighters worked through the night to contain the warehouse blaze.
Similarfireperson
Note
A deliberately gender-neutral coinage: fire plus fighter, made to stand in for both fireman and firewoman. That is the usage point worth keeping. Where an older text would choose a word by the person's sex, this one covers anyone in the job. It is written as one solid word, with the regular plural firefighters. Fireperson does the same neutral work, while smoke eater names the same person more vividly.
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Origin
Formed from fire and fighter, created as a gender-neutral term to replace fireman and firewoman.