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# eaglet

«eaglet» in Mova's school dictionary: **A young eagle, still a baby or chick** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an eaglet, eaglets)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A young eagle, still a baby or chick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eaglet/#m1)

2) In Alice in Wonderland, the Eaglet is a young bird in the pool of tears and the Caucus-race who tells the Dodo to «Speak English!» because it does not understand his long words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eaglet/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

The ending -let means small, as in piglet, booklet, droplet. In science lessons, eaglets hatch from eggs in a big nest called an eyrie and are fed by both parents until they can fly. In Alice the Eaglet stands for Alice's sister Edith; the Dodo is Carroll himself.

### examples

- The eaglet waited in the nest for its mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eaglet/#x1)
- «Speak English!» said the Eaglet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eaglet/#x2)
- Eaglets are covered in soft grey down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eaglet/#x3)
- Two eaglets hatched in the eyrie this spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eaglet/#x4)
- The eaglet flapped its wings for the first time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eaglet/#x5)
- The webcam shows the eaglets being fed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eaglet/#x6)
- "The young eaglet!" cried the miller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eaglet/#x7)

### note

Use «an eaglet» (starts with a vowel sound). Baby animal words: eaglet, owlet, duckling, cygnet, fawn, cub.

### In the corpora

- [The Eaglet says "Speak English!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «eaglet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eaglet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.