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fledgeling

fledgeling \fledgeling\, fledgling \fledgling\n. a new member of a group.

Syn: newcomer, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, entrant.

2. A young bird just fledged. [WordNet sense 2]

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fledgeling

n. (alternative spelling of fledgling English)

WordNet
fledgeling
  1. adj. of a young bird just having acquired its flight feathers; "a fledgling robin" [syn: fledgling(a), fledgeling(a)]

  2. n. any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant]

  3. young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying [syn: fledgling]

Usage examples of "fledgeling".

The noise seemed to shake the very twigs of the trees with their fledgeling buds.

And he would need a good job anyway if this fledgeling romance with his daughter was going to blossom.

To him it is seemingly a matter of indifference to what disaster the wind may carry the fledgelings who fall from the nest.

Meeko was running along a limb, the first of the fledgelings in his mouth.

ALSOP, AT THE TIME MONK CAME TO COLLEGE, HAD BECOME A kind of Mother Machree of the campus, the brood hen of yearling innocents, the guide and mentor of a whole flock of fledgeling lives.

To him it is seemingly a matter of indifference to what disaster the wind may carry the fledgelings who fall from the nest.

Meeko was running along a limb, the first of the fledgelings in his mouth.