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/fˈaɪtər/ Listen

noun

Fighter n.

One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.

A boxer; a pugilist.

A person with the determination and will to persist through great difficulty to achieve a goal; one with the courage to fight and resist an opponent, and to struggle with all one's powers.

(Mil.) A military aircraft designed to seek out and destroy enemy aircraft; it is usually smaller and more maneuvarable than aircraft designed specifically for bombing. However, hybrid fighter-bomber aircraft that perform both functions also are used.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fighter" Quotes from Famous Books

... funny Willard should have been so keen on sea fights," remarked he, "for as a matter of fact he was anything but a fighter. Undoubtedly it was the Revolution and the War of 1812 that stimulated the picturing of such scenes and made them popular. Had war been left to dear peace-loving old Simon Willard there would not have been much shooting, for he hated the very sight of a gun. One of his relatives declares that ...

— Christopher and the Clockmakers • Sara Ware Bassett

... is well known, on the border, as a valiant fighter, and a leading man in Coquetdale. It is known, too, that he might have been knighted, had he chosen; and doubtless there are many who, having heard that his hold is one of the strongest on the border, ...

— Both Sides the Border - A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower • G. A. Henty

... man with close-cropped red hair and a large square-jowled face, such as I have seen upon an English prize-fighter. ...

— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle

... results of his intervention. Before the echoes of his shot died, there came to him the rumble of what seemed to be tons of falling rock. In the bright air a slight mist was precipitated. To all of which was added the effect upon the ape-men of fear of a weapon and a type of fighter ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various

... had drawn them to each other. Albert was gentle in disposition, his health was not good, and he had been a weakly child. His father, who was a stout knight, regarded him with slight favour, and had acceded willingly to his desire to enter the Church, feeling that he would never make a good fighter. ...

— A March on London • G. A. Henty

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