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Fledgling   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.





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"Fledgling" Quotes from Famous Books



... turn his eyes away from her. He took note of every man that asked a dance of her. One of them kept writing on her programme for what seemed to Morgan an unbearable time, Margaret looking on with a tolerant half-smile. He knew the fellow well and hated him. Fledgling at one or other of the learned professions, always aggressively smooth and well-bred, a veritable paragon of polish without a single redeeming mannerism, to Morgan he represented one large swagger. There was something in the pose of the eye-glasses and in the clean-shaven ...
— Cleo The Magnificent - The Muse of the Real • Louis Zangwill


Words linked to "Fledgling" :   mature, starter, callow, tiro, recruit, unfledged, entrant, initiate, novice, newbie, inexperient


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