Fledge Meaning and Usage

Fledge:

Use Fledge in a sentence:

1. The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift for themselves.

2. She was now a fully-fledged member of the teaching profession.

3. The fledgling mountain climber needed assistance from the more experienced mountaineers.

4. Myra and her sisters are excited about their fledgling catering service.

5. We watched a robin giving flying lessons to her three fledglings.

6. These techniques will help both fledgling and veteran auditors improve their writing skills.

7. Following the example set by China’s wooden furniture sector, a growing number of fledgling businesses are diversifying.


Got some clue as to what fledge could mean?

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(a) To fledge a bird would mean to bring it up until it is able to fly.

(b) To fledge would mean to add feathers or plumage; to fledge an arrow is to add feathers to one end of it.


Some forms of the word:

1. fledgy

- adjective.

(a) feathered or feathery.


2. unfledged

- adjective

(a) (of a young bird) not having developed adult feathers

(b) immature and inexperienced, or untried.

3. Fledged

-adjective

(a) mature – (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination


4. Fledgling

-noun

(a) A young bird that has recently acquired its flight feathers – “a fledgling robin”

(b) A young or inexperienced person

-adjective

(c) New and untried or inexperienced – a fledgling enterprise, a fledgling diver, fledgling democracies.


A Glance Back:

Now let’s go back and see what fledge means in the above sentences:

1. The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift for themselves.

Adjective: Mature, ready, feathered.

2. She was now a fully-fledged member of the teaching profession.

Adjective: Mature, trained,

3. The fledgling mountain climber needed assistance from the more experienced mountaineers.

4. These techniques will help both fledgling and veteran auditors improve their writing skills

Adjective: Inexperienced, naive, neophyte.

5. Myra and her sisters are excited about their fledgling catering service.

6. Following the example set by China’s wooden furniture sector, a growing number of fledgling businesses are diversifying.

Adjective: Burgeoning, growing, emerging, arising.

7. We watched a robin giving flying lessons to her three fledglings.

Noun: younger birds which have just developed the feathers.



Synonyms: emergent, emerging, arising, dawning, beginning, developing, in the making, budding, raising, burgeoning, growing, embryonic, infant, nascent, incipient, promising, potential, entrant, freshman, neophyte, newbie, novice, tyro, beginner, freshman, greenhorn, initiate, enlistee, recruit, apprentice, tenderfoot, untried, colt, learner, abecedarian, rookie.

Antonyms: declining, mature, expert, professional.


Some more examples:

1. For a long time, the trend in science has been towards highly reductionist theories. Presumably inspired by the success of such reductionist fields as physics, other fledgling sciences have attempted to do the same, often with little success.

2. A fledgling manufacturing company has recently developed a new titanium alloy anti-ballistic vest with an estimated life-span of nearly twice that of the standard Kevlar vest.