Dictionary Definition
fighter
Noun
2 a high-speed military or naval airplane
designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air [syn: fighter
aircraft, attack
aircraft]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪtə(r)
Noun
Translations
person who fights
- Danish: kriger
- Finnish: taistelija
- German: Kämpfer
- Spanish:
- Italian: combattente m|f
warrior
Extensive Definition
Fighter may refer to:
- Warrior, a person habitually engaged in combat
- Fighter
aircraft, a warplane designed to destroy other warplanes in
combat
- Starfighter, the science-fiction equivalent of a fighter aircraft
- Fighter
(character class), a common archetypal character class in
numerous role-playing games
- Fighter (Dungeons & Dragons), a class in Dungeons & Dragons
- "Fighter" (song), a song by Christina Aguilera
- Fighter (film), a 2000 documentary about two holocaust survivors
- Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain, a book by Len Deighton
- Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, a baseball team in Hokkaidō, Japan
- Fighting game, a genre of videogames
fighter in German: Fighter
fighter in French: Fighter
fighter in Japanese: ファイター
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Chinese boxer, bantamweight, battler, belligerent, belted knight,
bickerer, black belt,
blade, boxer, bravo, brawler, brown belt, bruiser, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, disputant, duelist, enforcer, featherweight, fencer, feuder, fighting cock, fighting
man, fisticuffer,
flyweight, foilsman, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, heavyweight, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jouster, karate expert, knight, light heavyweight,
lightweight,
man-at-arms, middleweight, militant, palooka, plug-ugly, prizefighter, pug, pugilist, quarreler, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, savate expert, scrapper, scuffler, serviceman, sparrer, squabbler, strong arm,
strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swaddy, swashbuckler, sweat, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, warrior, welterweight, wrangler