fledg·ling

also fledge·ling (flĕj′lĭng)

1. A young bird that has left the nest and has usually acquired flight feathers, but is often not yet able to fly.

2. A young or inexperienced person.

adj.

New and untried or inexperienced: a fledgling enterprise.

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fledgling

(ˈflɛdʒlɪŋ) or

fledgeling

1. (Animals) a young bird that has just fledged

a young and inexperienced or untried person, organization or system

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fledg•ling

(ˈflɛdʒ lɪŋ)

n.

1. a young bird that has recently fledged.

2. an inexperienced person.

adj.

3. young or inexperienced.

[1820–30]

fledg·ling

(flĕj′lĭng)

A young bird that has just grown the feathers needed to fly and is capable of surviving outside the nest.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	fledgling - any new participant in some activity fledgeling, newbie, newcomer, freshman, neophyte, entrant, starter beginner, initiate, tiro, tyro, novice - someone new to a field or activity enlistee, recruit - any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces)
	2.	fledgling - young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying fledgeling young bird - a bird that is still young
Adj.	1.	fledgling - (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers; "a fledgling robin" fledgeling fledged, mature - (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
	2.	fledgling - young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer" callow, unfledged inexperienced, inexperient - lacking practical experience or training

fledgling

noun

1. chick, nestling, young bird The fathers of these fledglings are all dead.

2. new, beginning, developing, emerging, amateur, embryonic, probationary advice he gave to fledgling writers

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fledgling

also fledgeling
noun

One who is just starting to learn or do something:

abecedarian, beginner, freshman, greenhorn, initiate, neophyte, novice, novitiate, tenderfoot, tyro.

Slang: rookie.

Translations

طائِر صَغير

nezkušenýptáčátkoptáče

flügge gewordener Vogel Grünschnabel

pollito

oisillon inexpérimenté

fiatal madármadár: fiatal madár

uccellino alle prime armi novizio spina

flygeferdig fugleunge

刚会飞的小鸟

fledgling

fledgeling [ˈfledʒlɪŋ]

A. N (= young bird) → pajarito m (fig) → novato/a m/f

B. CPD [democracy, writer] → en ciernes; [company, industry] → joven

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fledgling

fledgeling [ˈflɛdʒlɪŋ]

n → oisillon m

modif

(= inexperienced) [person] → novice

(= new) [system, organization] → jeune

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

fledgling

n (Orn: = young bird) → Jungvogel m

adj democracy, organization, business → jung; person → frischgebacken (inf); fledgling artist → Nachwuchskünstler(in) m(f); fledgling teacher/writer → Junglehrer(in) m(f) → /-autor(in) m(f); their feminist movement is fledgling at best → ihre Feministenbewegung steckt noch in den Kinderschuhen; they began their fledgling career on a shoestring → sie haben ganz klein mit sehr wenig Geld angefangen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fledgling

fledgeling [ˈflɛdʒlɪŋ] n → uccellino

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

fledg(e)ling

(ˈfledʒliŋ) noun

a young bird ready to fly.

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References in classic literature

"You are seeking but to trick us." He would hear that from every one, and his heart would grow hard, and he would shiver in vain with the cold, like some poor little fledgling that has fallen out of the nest.

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It was a great deal to ask of a fledgling morality that was yet scarcely cognizant of its untried wings; but even as the man wavered between right and wrong there crept into his mind the one great and burning question of his life--had he a soul?

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I've knowed him ever since he was a fledgling. He come out of th' nest in th' other garden an' when first he flew over th' wall he was too weak to fly back for a few days an' we got friendly.

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Pumblechook, apostrophizing the fowl in the dish, "when you was a young fledgling, what was in store for you.

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Whether Young Smallweed (metaphorically called Small and eke Chick Weed, as it were jocularly to express a fledgling) was ever a boy is much doubted in Lincoln's Inn.

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This time, if I have any eye-sight, they have pecked down trouble for themselves, for Baloo is no fledgling and Bagheera can, as I know, kill more than goats."

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The truth was, it was a base fraud--a snare to trap the unwary--chaff to catch fledglings with.

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To the birds this was a very poor reason, but the older ones felt grateful to him at this time because he had nursed a number of fledglings through the German measles, and they offered to show him how birds fly a kite.

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As the serpent ate the eight fledglings and the sparrow that hatched them, which makes nine, so shall we fight nine years at Troy, but in the tenth shall take the town.' This was what he said, and now it is all coming true.

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Over such feeble fledglings the directress spread a wing of kindliest protection: it was to their bedside she came at night to tuck them warmly in; it was after them she looked in winter to see that they always had a comfortable seat by the stove; it was they who by turns were summoned to the salon to receive some little dole of cake or fruit--to sit on a footstool at the fireside--to enjoy home comforts, and almost home liberty, for an evening together--to be spoken to gently and softly, comforted, encouraged, cherished --and when bedtime came, dismissed with a kiss of true tenderness.

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They shouted, shone torches and waved to scare off predators intent on eating fledgling little terns on the Northumberland shore, where none survived last year.

Seabirds fledged thanks to rangers; BOOST

They shouted, shone torches and waved their arms to scare off predators intent on eating fledgling Little Terns on a stretch of the Northumberland shore where none survived last year.

Rangers camp out to protect rare birds