Definitions for fledged

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fledged fledged

Spelling: [flejd]

IPA: /flɛdʒd/

Fledged is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in fledged (ddeefgl).

Definitions for fledged

adjective

1. having the plumage or feathers necessary for flight.
2. having the characteristics of maturity.
3. Archaic. (of young birds) able to fly.

verb (used with object)

1. to bring up (a young bird) until it is able to fly.
2. to furnish with or as if with feathers or plumage.
3. to provide (an arrow) with feathers.

verb (used without object)

1. (of a young bird) to acquire the feathers necessary for flight.

Origin of fledged

First recorded in 1570-80; fledge + -ed²

Examples for fledged

This incident made him 25 years old when this Story was fledged, which was in 1722.

Young, when fledged, like the female, but with the crest shorter.

A boy, in the first place—not fledged yet; what I call fledgling.

Over yonder, in some distant region of Libya, they had been fledged in masses.

Those procured after the young are fledged are not salable in China.

France goes rolling all around, fledged with forest May has crowned.

By-and-by they will be fledged, and tailed, and get wing-feathers, and fly.

The nests of birds should be taken as soon as the young are fledged and flown.

It had long been fledged, but they had clipped its wings and put it in a cage.

When he was fledged I let him out in the room, and so he could exercise his wings.