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Fighter vs Brawler - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fighter and brawler

is that fighter is a person who fights, a combatant while brawler is one who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.

fighter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who fights, a combatant.
  • A warrior; fighting soldier.
  • A pugnacious, competitive person.
  • A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is that of shooting down other aircraft. Some of these (Fighter-Attack or Attack aircraft) also have a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
  • A boxer or participant in any martial art.
  • (colloquial) A firefighter
  • (video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.
  • * 2004 , Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks (page 59)
  • Still, it's excellent software, especially for one-on-one fighting titles such as the King Of Fighters series, classic Street Fighter II variants, and newer one-on-one fighters such as Garou.

    Derived terms

    * cage fighter * freedom fighter * prizefighter * (aircraft) fighter-bomber, fighter-interceptor, fighter plane, foo fighter, fighter jet, stealth fighter, strike fighter

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    brawler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.
  • * 1604 Shakespeare, Othello , .
  • ''The world hath noted, and your name is great
    ''In mouths of wisest censure: what's the matter,
    ''That you unlace your reputation thus
    ''And spend your rich opinion for the name
    ''Of a night-brawler ? give me answer to it.
  • * 1611
  • ''A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
    ''Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler , not covetous;
    ''One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
    (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) — 1 Timothy 3:2-5, KJV.

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