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# fledged

«fledged» in Mova's school dictionary: **A fledged bird has grown the feathers it needs to fly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (from the verb «fledge»: fledges, fledged, fledging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fledged bird has grown the feathers it needs to fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fledged/#m1)

2) «Half-fledged» means not yet fully grown or ready, like a young bird still learning to fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fledged/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a young person who is not yet grown up or ready for the world

### examples

- But as for the youngest one, Ivan, he was like a half-grown lad or a half-fledged duckling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fledged/#x1)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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