'fledgling' definitions:
Definition of 'fledgling'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers; "a fledgling robin" [syn: fledgling(a), fledgeling(a)]
adjective
Young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer" [syn: fledgling, unfledged, callow]
noun
Any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant]
noun
Young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying [syn: fledgling, fledgeling]
Definition of 'fledgling'
From: GCIDE
- fledgeling \fledgeling\, fledgling \fledgling\n. a new member of a group.
- Syn: newcomer, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, entrant. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. A young bird just fledged. [WordNet sense 2] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'fledgling'
From: GCIDE
- fledgling \fledgling\ adj.
- 1. having just acquired its flight feathers; -- of a young bird; as, a fledgling robin. [prenominal]
- Syn: fledgeling(prenominal). [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. young and inexperienced; as, a fledgling enterprise; a fledgling skier.
- Syn: unfledged. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'fledgling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abecedarian,
- adolescent,
- alphabetarian,
- apprentice,
- arriviste,
- articled clerk,
- at half cock,
- avifauna,
- baby,
- baby bird,
- beginner,
- bird,
- bird of Jove,
- bird of Juno,
- bird of Minerva,
- bird of night,
- bird of passage,
- bird of prey,
- birdie,
- birdlife,
- birdling,
- birdy,
- boot,
- boy,
- bright young man,
- bub,
- bubba,
- buck,
- bud,
- buddy,
- cage bird,
- calf,
- callow,
- catechumen,
- catling,
- chick,
- chickling,
- chicky,
- colt,
- comer,
- cub,
- cygnet,
- deb,
- debutant,
- dewy,
- diving bird,
- dogie,
- dove,
- duckling,
- eagle,
- eaglet,
- entrant,
- ever-new,
- evergreen,
- fawn,
- fellow,
- firsthand,
- fish-eating bird,
- flightless bird,
- foal,
- fowl,
- fresh,
- freshman,
- fruit-eating bird,
- fryer,
- fulmar,
- game bird,
- gosling,
- green,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- half-grown,
- hobbledehoy,
- hopeful,
- ignoramus,
- ill-digested,
- immature,
- impubic,
- inductee,
- infant,
- initiate,
- insect-eating bird,
- intact,
- junior,
- juvenal,
- juvenile,
- kid,
- kit,
- kitten,
- lad,
- laddie,
- lamb,
- lambkin,
- learner,
- litter,
- maiden,
- maidenly,
- manchild,
- master,
- migrant,
- migratory bird,
- minor,
- modern,
- modern generation,
- modern man,
- modernist,
- modernizer,
- muchacho,
- neologism,
- neologist,
- neology,
- neonate,
- neophyte,
- neoteric,
- neoterism,
- neoterist,
- nest,
- nestling,
- new,
- new boy,
- new generation,
- new man,
- newcomer,
- nouveau riche,
- novice,
- novitiate,
- novus homo,
- original,
- oscine bird,
- owl,
- parvenu,
- passerine bird,
- peacock,
- peafowl,
- peahen,
- perching bird,
- pigeon,
- piglet,
- pigling,
- polliwog,
- postulant,
- pristine,
- probationer,
- probationist,
- pubescent,
- pullet,
- pup,
- puppy,
- ratite,
- raw,
- raw recruit,
- recruit,
- rising generation,
- rookie,
- sapling,
- schoolboy,
- sea bird,
- seed-eating bird,
- sempervirent,
- shoat,
- shore bird,
- slip,
- songbird,
- sonny,
- sonny boy,
- sprig,
- squab,
- storm petrel,
- stormy petrel,
- stripling,
- swan,
- tadpole,
- teenager,
- teener,
- teenybopper,
- tenderfoot,
- trainee,
- tyro,
- unbeaten,
- underripe,
- undeveloped,
- unfledged,
- unmellowed,
- unripe,
- unseasoned,
- untouched,
- untried,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- upstart,
- vernal,
- virgin,
- virginal,
- wading bird,
- warbler,
- water bird,
- waterfowl,
- weaner,
- whelp,
- wildfowl,
- yeanling,
- young,
- young hopeful,
- young man,
- young person,
- Young Turk,
- younger,
- youngest,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youth