fighter

[ fahy-ter ]

noun

1. a boxer; pugilist.
2. Military. an aircraft designed to seek out and destroy enemy aircraft in the air and to protect bomber aircraft.
3. a person who fights, struggles, resists, etc.
4. a person with the will, courage, determination, ability, or disposition to fight, struggle, resist, etc.
5. an animal, as a dog, trained to fight or having the disposition to fight.

fighter

/ ˈfaɪtə /

noun

1. a person who fights, esp a professional boxer
2. a person who has determination
3. military an armed aircraft designed for destroying other aircraft

Other Words From

• non·fighter noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of fighter¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English fēohtere. See fight, -er ¹

Example Sentences

“It’s within me to be a fighter, to be a disruptor, to be someone who will do the thing that nobody else will,” Paul says in “Countdown.”

From Los Angeles Times

Paul – who has mainly fought ex-UFC stars in an 11-bout career – cursed at a journalist who asked him when he would face "a real fighter".

From BBC

Gen Brown is a former fighter pilot with command experience in the Pacific and Middle East, and was appointed into the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff role by President Joe Biden last year.

From BBC

“Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter,” Trump said in a statement confirming the first cabinet pick of his second term.

From BBC

“They have no concept of a free sky, because everything in the sky is trying to kill them. It’s either trying to track them, to surveil them, to maim them, to target them, to kill them, whether it’s these quadcopters, whether it’s the drones, whether it’s the fighter jets.”

From Salon

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