Firefighter

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  firefighter \fire"fight`er\, fire fighter \fire"
  fight`er\(f[imac]r"f[imac]`t[~e]r), n.
     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.
  


     Note: Some towns have few or no professional firefighters,
           and fire suppression is conducted mostly by groups of
           volunteers, called {volunteer firefighters}. The term
           fireman[1] was at one time synonymous with firefighter,
           until women began to engage in the same occupation.
           [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  firefighter
       n : a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
           [syn: {fireman}, {fire fighter}, {fire-eater}]