fireman
noun
a person employed to extinguish or prevent fires; firefighter.
firemen
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pluralof fireman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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By all means honor the firemen and police and others who gave their lives on 9/11.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Nearly 800 firemen have been deployed to the major fire in Valpacos which has left at least five people lightly injured.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
In the Nashville airport, he found himself alongside a group of firemen heading to Oklahoma to help with the rescue.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
This was a leader who rolled up his sleeves and stacked sandbags alongside firemen and volunteers, when toxic red sludge from a bauxite mine engulfed a Hungarian valley and threatened the Danube shore in 2010.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the, firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
