Fledgling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A young bird that has recently acquired its flight feathers.
  • n. A young or inexperienced person.
  • adj. New and untried or inexperienced: a fledgling enterprise.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. this sense?) untried or inexperienced
  • n. A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).
  • n. An immature, naïve and/or inexperienced person.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. having just acquired its flight feathers; -- of a young bird.
  • adj. young and inexperienced.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A young bird just fledged.
  • n. Hence A raw or inexperienced person.
  • Newly fledged; untried.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any new participant in some activity
  • adj. (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers
  • n. young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying
  • adj. young and inexperienced
  • Equivalent
    mature    fledged    inexperient    inexperienced   
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    young bird   
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    fledgeling   
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