fireman
pronunciation
How to pronounce fireman in British English:
UK [ˈfaɪəmən]
How to pronounce fireman in American English:
US [ˈfaɪərmən]
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- Noun:
- play in which children take the roles of firemen and pretend to put out a fire
- a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
- a pitcher who does not start the game
- a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
Word Origin
- fireman (n.)
- also fire-man, late 14c., "tender of a fire," from fire (n.) + man (n.). From 1650s as "furnace-tender" of a early steam engine. As "person hired to put out (rather than tend) fires" it is attested from 1714. For "stoker," Old English had fyrbeta.
Example
- 1. Do women have a " fireman " fantasy ?
- 2. Father : look ! The fireman has already reached the man .
- 3. Note that the teaser image shows a fireman holding a baby .
- 4. 1 / 13 Magoula , greece : a fireman extinguishes a fire at a warehouse
- 5. He remembered a fireman who used to park his car in front of his firehouse to run in nearby central park .