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Fledgling   /flˈɛdʒlɪŋ/   Listen
Fledgling

adjective
1.
(of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers.  Synonym: fledgeling.
2.
Young and inexperienced.  Synonyms: callow, unfledged.  "A fledgling skier" , "An unfledged lawyer"






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"Fledgling" Quotes from Famous Books



... keenness. She did not seem to think, but instinctively to feel her way to required knowledge, caring for herself in the desert as a fledgling bird tossed by some storm from the home nest. He remembered there were wild burros in the Sonora hills, but that she should have already located one on this most barren of mountains was but another unbelievable ...
— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan



Words linked to "Fledgling" :   tyro, recruit, tiro, young bird, mature, beginner, novice, enlistee, inexperienced, fledged, inexperient, initiate



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