"fire truck" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /faɪɚ tɹʌk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-fire truck.wav Forms: fire trucks [plural]
Etymology: From fire + truck. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|fire|truck}} fire + truck Head templates: {{en-noun}} fire truck (plural fire trucks)
  1. (firefighting, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A motor truck that serves as firefighting apparatus (a fire appliance). Tags: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US Synonyms: fire engine Hypernyms: truck, motor vehicle, vehicle Related terms: firetruck [alternative], fire company, fire department, fire service, fire extinguisher, fire insurance Translations (ladder truck): brandweerwa (Afrikaans), سيارة مطافئ (Arabic), 雲梯車 /云梯车 (Chinese Mandarin), tikasauto (Finnish), camión contraincendios con escalera [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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