fireman

noun fire·man \ ˈfī(-ə)r-mən \

|Updated on: 20 Aug 2018

Definition of fireman

1 : a person who tends or feeds fires : stoker

2 : a member of a fire department : firefighter

3 : an enlisted man in the navy who works with engineering machinery

4 : a relief pitcher in baseball

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Kevin Schuette, a volunteer from the Southeast Texas Airboat Club, and Blake Hughes, a probationary fireman for Cypress Creek Fire Department, rescue two women and their dog by airboat from an apartment complex.

— maggie gordon, Houston Chronicle, "Lifelong friends make expert airboat rescue team," 7 July 2018
The protagonist is a fireman named Guy Montag, who one day smuggles a book home and reads it, setting himself on the path to knowledge and, ultimately, rebellion.

— adi robertson, The Verge, "HBO’s Fahrenheit 451 turns a warning about media into a tirade against tech trends," 19 May 2018
His mother was a homemaker, and his father was a railroad fireman and union man who worked for better wages for black workers.

— neanda salvaterra, WSJ, "In West Harlem, a Tuskegee Airman Gets His Due," 25 Apr. 2018
On The Mount Carmel Campus Growing up, Lahey didn’t know any doctors or lawyers. In his working-class Bronx neighborhood, Lahey idolized firemen and police officers.

— alison kuznitz, courant.com, "A Visionary Leader, President John Lahey Casts His Final Shadow On Quinnipiac University," 2 July 2018
When Samantha really heats things up with a fireman at a FDNY firehouse.

— refinery29.com, "Sex & The City," 6 June 2018
Seeing, touching and smelling a book is as alien to the firemen as milking a cow by hand would be for most of us.

— constance grady, Vox, "Why Fahrenheit 451 still matters in the e-book era," 12 May 2018
They were dragged out by a dozen firemen who plunged out after them along the line.

— scott harrison, latimes.com, "From the Archives: 1952 Los Angeles River rescue," 11 Jan. 2018
Later on, to find out the house was probably gone before the firemen ever got there.

— adam baum, Cincinnati.com, "Cincinnati Reds help Harrison baseball coach Shawn Sowders after a devastating house fire," 4 July 2018

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fireman

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: a man who is a member of group that works to put out fires

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fireman

noun fire·man \ ˈfīr-mən \

Definition of fireman for Students

plural firemen \-mən\

1 : firefighter

2 : a person who tends a fire (as in a large furnace)

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