Word Meanings - FIGHTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who fights; a combatant; a warrior. Shak.
Related words: (words related to FIGHTER)
- WARRIORESS
A female warrior. Spenser. - COMBATANT
Contending; disposed to contend. B. Jonson. - WARRIOR
A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion. Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. Milton. Warrior ant , a reddish ant native of Europe and America. It is one of the species which move in armies to - CLOSE-FIGHTS
Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. - NONCOMBATANT
Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army;