Usually means: Vehicle equipped for firefighting operations.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word fire engine:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. fire engine: Merriam-Webster
  2. fire engine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fire engine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fire engine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fire engine: Vocabulary.com
  6. fire-engine, fire engine: Wordnik
  7. fire engine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fire-engine, fire engine: Wiktionary
  9. fire engine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fire engine: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Fire engine, fire engine: Dictionary.com
  12. Fire engine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. fire engine: Rhymezone
  14. fire engine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. fire-engine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. fire engine: FreeDictionary.org
  17. fire engine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. fire engine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. fire engine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fire engine: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fire Engine: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fire engine)

▸ noun:  (firefighting, vehicles) A vehicle used by firefighters to pump water to fight a fire. Typically, a fire engine carries a supply of water and has the ability to connect to an external water supply.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A steam engine.

Similar:
fire truck, fire appliance, apparatus, quint, emergency vehicle, water tender, tanker, aerial ladder, tender engine, feed pump, more...

Opposite:
fire truck, fire apparatus, fire vehicle

Phrases:
fire engine red, fire engine practice, steam fire engine, Finley the Fire Engine, Wildland fire engine, more...

Adjectives:
noncondensing, steam, male, exhaust, uniflow, piping, gas, lead, cover, lantern, pumped-up

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Similar:
fire truck, fire appliance, apparatus, quint, emergency vehicle, water tender, tanker, aerial ladder, tender engine, feed pump, more...

Opposite:
fire truck, fire apparatus, fire vehicle

Phrases:
fire engine red, fire engine practice, steam fire engine, Finley the Fire Engine, Wildland fire engine, fire engine item, fire engine equipment, fire engine attachment, more...

Adjectives:
noncondensing, steam, male, exhaust, uniflow, piping, gas, lead, cover, lantern, pumped-up



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