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fighter

[ fahy-ter ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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

fighter

/ ˈfaɪtə /

Origin of fighter¹

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

Another senior Air Force official with stealth fighter experience agreed.

Back then, no one ever imagined needing to beam live video to ground troops from a fighter jet.

The Islamic State, or ISIS, claims it has shot down a Jordanian fighter jet and captured its pilot.

Another Air Force official with experience on the stealthy new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter agreed.

High flying and fast, the F-22 Raptor stealth jet is by far the most lethal fighter America has ever built.

Irvine Kempt I cannot imagine was as keen a fighter as the rest, for he was rather a dignified gentleman with fine manners.

The faithful Wolff too, as a graduate of a German university, had been a fighter of duels in his youth.

And the arms of the fighter shall be overcome before his face, and shall be broken: yea, also the prince of the covenant.

His Gritos del Combate were the agonised expression of a fighter in his country's battle for freedom and for light.

Their methods, too, were rather those of the duelist than the fighter, and this gave Barrington and Seth some advantage.

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