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fighter

noun
/ˈfaɪ.tə(ɹ)/UK/ˈfaɪtɚ/US

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from feohtere
  2. inherited from fightere

Definitions

  1. A person who fights

    A person who fights; a combatant.

  2. A warrior

    A warrior; a fighting soldier.

  3. A pugnacious, competitive person.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially…

      A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.

      • 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

    2. A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft,…

      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.

    3. A participant in boxing or any martial art.

    4. A firefighter.

    5. 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.

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Derived

fighter-bomber, fighter-interceptor, fighter plane, foo fighter, fighter jet, night fighter, stealth fighter, strike fighter, booze fighter, bullfighter, bushfighter, cage fighter, choose one's fighter, cockfighter, copyfighter, crimefighter, crime fighter, crime-fighter, deadline fighter, fighter ace, fighter aircraft, fighter bomber, fighteress, fighter pilot, fire fighter, fistfighter, forefighter, foreign fighter, freedom fighter, gunfighter, jet fighter, Nerdfighter, nonfighter, prize fighter, prizefighter, shootfighter, snowfighter, stick-fighter, street fighter, streetfighter · +4 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fighter. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fighter. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at fighter

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA