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# fireman

«fireman» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person whose job is to put out fires and rescue people…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a fireman, firemen)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fireman is a person whose job is to put out fires and rescue people; today the usual word is firefighter, because both men and women do this job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fireman/#m1)

2) (old) A fireman was also a worker who kept the fire burning in a steam engine or ship's boiler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fireman/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety lessons, firefighters visit schools to teach fire safety: smoke alarms, stop-drop-and-roll, and calling 999, 911, 000 or 111 (depending on country). In history, steam-train firemen shovelled coal. Phrases: «Fireman Sam», «fireman's lift» (a way of carrying a person over your shoulders).

### examples

- The fireman rescued a cat from the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fireman/#x1)
- Today we say firefighter, because women do the job too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fireman/#x2)
- Fireman Sam is a children's TV show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fireman/#x3)
- A fireman shovelled coal into the steam engine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fireman/#x4)
- The fireman showed us how to check a smoke alarm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fireman/#x5)
- In PE we learned a fireman's lift. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fireman/#x6)

### note

Plural: firemen. Modern, neutral word: firefighter. Emergency numbers: 999 (UK, Ireland also 112), 911 (USA, Canada), 000 (Australia), 111 (New Zealand).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fireman» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fireman/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.