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firemaster

noun

firemaster is a noun meaning “The chief of a fire brigade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-R-E-M-A-S-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of firemaster is firemasters.

What does firemaster mean?

noun

  1. 1

    ScotlandThe chief of a fire brigade.

  2. 2

    An artillery officer who supervised the composition of fireworks.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of firemaster

  • firemasters plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is firemaster?

Firemaster appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does firemaster come from?

From fire + master.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).