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Fledgling   /flˈɛdʒlɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
fledgling  adj.  
1.
Having just acquired its flight feathers; of a young bird; as, a fledgling robin. (prenominal)
Synonyms: fledgeling(prenominal).
2.
Young and inexperienced; as, a fledgling enterprise; a fledgling skier.
Synonyms: unfledged.


noun
fledgling, fledgeling  n.  
1.
A new member of a group.
Synonyms: newcomer, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, entrant.
2.
A young bird just fledged.





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"Fledgling" Quotes from Famous Books



... become so deep they could no longer see over them, ministers awakening to the fact that they had given all their store and must get a new supply, business men aware of a call to another field of action— working with a consistent earnestness the average fledgling freshman cannot imagine—he is not old enough; yet generally the tendency is to exclude such students, unless they will go back and do the arduous, and often for them useless, work of preparing to pass the ...
— The Soul of Democracy - The Philosophy Of The World War In Relation To Human Liberty • Edward Howard Griggs
... unsuspected. He is there by far too frequently. At this season the crows are always in the mowing-grass, searching about, stalking in winding tracks from furrow to furrow, picking up an egg here and a foolish fledgling that has wandered from the mound yonder. Very likely there may be a moorhen or two slipping about under cover of the long grass; thus hidden, they can leave the shelter of the flags and wander a distance from ...
— The Life of the Fields • Richard Jefferies
... to myself as I got up. "Let this prattling fledgling write his thesis and sustain it! He will find my colleague, Quicherat, or some other professor at the school, to show him what an ignoramus he is. I consider him neither more nor less than a rascal; and really, now that ...
— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France
... have in this life. How could I, not yet six, think otherwise than as she had told me to think, or have a doubt? A mother is more to her child than any other being, human or divine, can ever be to him in his subsequent life. He is as dependent on her as any fledgling in the nest on its parent—even more, since she warms his callow mind or ...
— Far Away and Long Ago • W. H. Hudson
... to rest, as a mother a dead baby in its coffin. Into the closet went the bits of lingerie from the consignment just arrived from Paris, and the other spoils of the day. When everything was buried she shut the door upon it, as in her heart she was shutting the door on her poor little fledgling hopes. Nothing remained to torment her vision, or distract her from what she had to do. The old gray rag and the battered black hat were all she had now to ...
— The Dust Flower • Basil King


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