Fighter

//ˈfaɪ.tə(ɹ)// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who fights; a combatant.
  2. 2
    a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air wordnet
  3. 3
    A warrior; a fighting soldier.
  4. 4
    someone who fights for a cause wordnet
  5. 5
    A pugnacious, competitive person.
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  1. 6
    someone who fights (or is fighting) wordnet
  2. 7
    A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness. poetic

    "Little weapons / Over the phone / They like to threaten / The life that I know / They say "Get over here and get into the ring" / But I'm not really much of a fighter"

  3. 8
    A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
  4. 9
    A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.; A starfighter broadly

    "Task Force 42 consisted of almost two dozen main line spinships, including the carriers Olympus Shadow and Neptune Station. Each of these can launch more than a hundred fighters or ALRs."

  5. 10
    A participant in boxing or any martial art.
  6. 11
    A firefighter. colloquial
  7. 12
    A game with a focus on physical combat.

    "Still, it's excellent software, especially for one-on-one fighting titles such as the King Of Fighters series, classic Street Fighter II variants, and newer one-on-one fighters such as Garou."

Etymology

From Middle English fightere, fyghtor, feghtere, feghtare, fiȝtare, fiȝtere, from Old English feohtere. Equivalent to fight + -er.

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