Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who fights, such as a soldier or boxer.
- n. A fast, maneuverable combat aircraft used to engage enemy aircraft.
- n. A pugnacious, unyielding, or determined person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who fights; a combatant; especially, one who is disposed to fight, or who fights well.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who fights, a combatant.
- n. A warrior; fighting soldier.
- n. A pugnacious, competitive person.
- n. 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.
- n. A boxer or participant in any martial art.
- n. video games A game with a focus on physical combat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.
- n. A boxer; a pugilist.
- n. 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.
- n. (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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who fights for a cause
- n. someone who fights (or is fighting)
- n. a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air
Etymologies
- fight + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Hillary as a fighter is a good campaigner but Hillary as a fighter would make a lousy President because you can't get anything done by fighting and leaning on people all of the time.”
“To go on those ups and downs and to take on the character of the fighter is a delicious challenge.”
“But I'll tell you this, sir, that those units that have been extended here for 15 months, I applaud what their commanders and senior non-commissioned officers have done, because they've implemented what we refer to as a fighter management program, which provides for the maximum extent possible every bit of rest and recovery we possibly can for our troopers before we push them back out in the streets.”
“A better legacy for her would be a graceful departure from the campaign, but her desire to be a "fighter" is too ingrained.”
“As an aside, that reminds me of an excellent post I read today over at Shakesville written by Melissa McEwan where it's mentioned how kick-ass the female characters have become in fighter-arcade style games.”
“Just remember, in todays world one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist!”
Napolitano: No indication of wider plot in botched airline attack
“Hearing such a revelation from the mouth of a British fighter is akin to discovering Bob Dylan wants to trade his acoustic guitar for a sampler.”
The Huffington Post: Elliot Worsell: Britain's Third Wave of Mixed Martial Artists
“Usually one fighter is slightly strong and lasts a little longer.”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Is teleportation overpowered?
“I could even hear the jet fighter from the US air base near the Japanese factory fly overhead during the conference.”
“It seems were down to just [2] Two companies anyway, in fighter manufacturing and with all the cost of their fighting for the same contracts they would think of a join venturing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fighter’.
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Dungeons and Dragons
Would you like to join our party? We just started a new campaign.
For more general lists about role-playing games, see brandelion's RPG and lampbane's Tales of the Dread Gazebo.dungeons and dragons, d&d, elf, orc, halfling, drow, giant, troll, kobold, rpg, d20, human and 100 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
depict, delegation, daughter, Dardanus, Dardanian, Dardan, Hellespont, cupbearer, Crete, Cretan, Creon, copulate and 713 more...
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-er
person who; thing or action; repeatedly; comparative degree
farmer, New Yorker, double-header, flicker, cooler, better, flasher, fighter, worker, singer, dancer, doer and 13 more...
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Violence
sucker punch, punch, bunch of fives, haymaker, bare-knuckle, punch-drunk, brawler, scrapper, hellkite, street fighter, gamecock, powerhouse and 30 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Words that are also songs
Totally ripped off from John.
tribute, sister, mother, pain, plowed, peaches, lump, kitty, drive, warning, duvet, clocks and 46 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fighter.
lampbane "Cause it makes me that much stronger
Makes me work a little bit harder
It makes me that much wiser
So thanks for making me a fighter
Made me learn a little bit faster
Made my skin a little bit thicker
Makes me that much smarter
So thanks for making me a fighter" Jul 31, 2007