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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fledgling
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an emerging/fledgling democracy (=new)
▪ the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Last year there were 80 breeding pairs which produced 100 fledglings - they are now being studied by Durham University.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Democratic reforms are beginning to take hold in this fledgling republic.
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▪ At first, Roukoubé was the only baby in their fledgling enterprise.
▪ Computing becomes an end in itself as the fledgling hacker gets sucked into the loop between the human and the computer.
▪ In New York a fledgling needle-exchange programme was scrapped last February.
▪ It seems he gave the fledgling architect his head.
▪ Jonathan Powell, 44, will join the fledgling station before its broadcasting debut on January 1.
▪ Peter was clearly a good deal less intimidated than some of his fledgling contemporaries.
▪ The agreement angered the Bush administration which was philosophically opposed to the government becoming a venture capitalist for fledgling companies.
▪ There is room for further co-operation between them, as well as with new, fledgling national clearinghouses.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fledgling

fledgling \fledgling\ adj.

  1. having just acquired its flight feathers; -- of a young bird; as, a fledgling robin. [prenominal]

    Syn: fledgeling(prenominal).

  2. young and inexperienced; as, a fledgling enterprise; a fledgling skier.

    Syn: unfledged.

fledgling

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]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fledgling

also fledgeling, 1830, "untried" (adj.), in Tennyson; 1846 as a noun meaning "young bird" (one newly fledged); from fledge + diminutive suffix -ling. Of persons, from 1856.

Wiktionary
fledgling

a. untried or inexperienced. n. 1 (context literally English) A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings). 2 (context figuratively English) An immature, naïve and/or inexperienced person.

WordNet
fledgling

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

  2. young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer" [syn: unfledged]

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

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

Wikipedia
Fledgling (novel)

Fledgling is a science fiction vampire novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler, published in 2005.

Fledgling

Fledgling or Fledglings may refer to:

  • Curtiss Fledgling, a trainer aircraft
  • Fergie's Fledglings, a group of Manchester United players recruited under the management of Alex Ferguson
  • Fledgling (birds), a young bird that has recently left its nest but is still dependent upon parental care and feeding
  • Fledgling (insect), an insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago.
  • Fledgling (novel), a 2005 science fiction novel by Octavia Butler
  • Fledgling, a 2009 novel of the Liaden universe

Usage examples of "fledgling".

In addition, a fledgling has to contend with the devastating effect of daylight, the ability to see, hear and smell things way beyond mortal capabilities, and an extraordinary mental acuity to mold mortal minds.

Pass over Aiken and the other silver-torc prisoners, the man Raimo and the woman Sukey, their infantile mental babblings as grating as the efforts of fledgling violinists importuning the ears of a cranky virtuoso.

But a bondbird, when not bonded as a fledgling or even an eyas, was traditionally given a choice.

I gave them a warm, womanly, compassionate smile and continued walking, quite pleased that they had considered me femininely pretty enough to be a fledgling prostitute.

Then, and only then, had Kien moved on to the city and joined the army of the fledgling Republic of Vietnam.

Our motherland is our mother, our mother, gentlemen, we are her fledglings and from her we derive our sustenance!

Little birds woke up and fluttered tei fledgling wings, while their parents sang or c their territorial rights before they flew away 1 food.

Seated in an overstuffed armchair, Tolley began to relax, feeling like a fledgling cuckoo as the Beaumonts fluttered about, plying him with hot, milky tea and a stack of biscuits and small, buttery cakes.

Her internship at Waynscot International, a fledgling marketing firm, turned into a fulltime position just before the company found a niche and market shares soared sky-high.

I returned to Washington that afternoon and was asked by Senate Republican leader Trent Lott to be the liaison for the Republican senators to the fledgling medical and law enforcement investigation into the anthrax exposure at the Hart building.

These attenuated volumes of poetry in fancy bindings open their covers at one like so many little unfledged birds, and one does so long to drop a worm in,--a worm in the shape of a kind word for the poor fledgling!

She glared at him just as she would have glared at a foolish young brancher for acting like one of the fledglings.

In the 1840s, when both had been fledgling writers, they had met in the circle gathered around the great critic Belinsky, who had presciently recognized their burgeoning talents.

Keff said, pulling his hands free and retaking prossession of IT from the enthusiastic fledglings.

Its fledgling ecosystem was shallow and undiversified, with only a few primitive species, most of them in the cradle of the sea.