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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fledged
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
▪ He's a fully fledged pilot now.
▪ Even fully fledged homosexuals often return to the pursuit of women.
▪ The longer-term tendency may be for the joint boards to develop into fully fledged special purpose authorities.
▪ He wasn't hurt, but I was a fully fledged professor before I could afford another.
▪ Several goldsmiths developed into fully fledged banks and issued banknotes.
▪ We are now fully fledged instructors.
▪ I was quite happy to reap the benefits of being a fully fledged malai killer.
▪ These constraints put out of the question any prospect of training fully fledged navigators for the thousands of landing craft crews.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fledged

fledged \fledged\ adj.

  1. having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination; -- of birds. [Narrower terms: fledgling(prenominal), fledgeling(prenominal)] unfledged

    Syn: mature.

  2. equipped with feathers; -- of an arrow.

    Syn: vaned.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fledged

"furnished with feathers," 1570s (in full-fledged), thus "developed, matured, able to fly;" past-participle adjective from fledge (v.).

Wiktionary
fledged
  1. Able to fly. v

  2. (en-past of: fledge)

WordNet
fledged
  1. adj. (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination [syn: mature] [ant: unfledged]

  2. (of an arrow) equipped with feathers [syn: vaned]

Usage examples of "fledged".

Even fledged fielders back in Anche showed more respect, he thought darkly, choosing to ignore the fact that most of the respect had been directed toward the professors and not the Polytext students who trailed after them.

But, less than a week later when we had made one combat drop with them, we were full fledged Roughnecks, members of the family, called by our first names, chewed out on occasion without any feeling on either side that we were less than blood brothers thereby, borrowed from and lent to, included in bull sessions and privileged to express our own silly opinions with complete freedomand have them slapped down just as freely.

The Furies seized a dozen toys at random, took them inside their inhuman ship, and upgraded their intelligence, turning them from simple preprogrammed servants into fully fledged independent AIs.

I went to market with the boy twice, taking fledged chickens and my inks and dyes and such roots and herbs as I thought might be unusual there.

He was, in her estimation, a harmless boy, scarcely fledged as yet, but anxious to convince everyone that he was a buck of the first head.

Raptor mothers-with the exception of Barn Owls-continue to feed the youngsters and teach them to hunt after they've fledged, but sometimes wind and weather again carry the kids off beyond finding their way back to mom.

Everybeast cheered wildly and tears sprang unbidden to the eyes of Abbess Vale at the sight of the young squirrel, now a fully fledged warrior wielding the great blade in the sunlight.

He wasn't even fully fledged when he made his first foray onto the ground.

They were fully fledged already, and almost as large as their mother.

It is unlikely that a fully fledged DNA molecule would spring into existence without the aid of other molecules that normally exist only in living cells.

In it Mordred could see the two young birds, fully fledged but still obviously juveniles.

By the time we left Spain, Janet was a fully fledged remote viewer.