firefightern.
/ˈfʌɪəˌfʌɪtə/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌfaɪdər/ A person who fights fires; spec. a member of a fire service trained to extinguish fires and to provide other emergency and rescue services.
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1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xxix. 192 The tired fire-fighters raced, one and all, to the dam.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 16 June 4/3 A practical fire-fighter of great experience..who has been for a long time the chief officer of the Hampton Fire Brigade.
1918 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Feb. 168/1 Automobile fire-engines..manned by a sufficient force of trained fire-fighters.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. B7/2 (advt.) A well equipped Fire Department with a present strength of over 80 Fire Fighters.
2012 Kalgoorlie (W. Austral.) Miner (Nexis) 8 Mar. 8 The ambulance officers, firefighters and police always had a smile on their faces, but goodness only knows what was churning around inside them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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