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Definition: Fledge |
FledgeVerb1. Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight. 2. Decorate with feathers, as of an arrow or dart. 3. Grow feathers, of birds; "A fledgling sparrow fell out of its nest". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fledge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The stage in a young birds life when the feathers and wing muscles are sufficiently developed for flight.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fledge."
Synonyms: FledgeSynonyms: feather (v), flight (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Preparation | Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fledge |
| English words defined with "fledge": Fledging, Flidge. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fledge": Flidge. (references) |
| "Fledge" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Fledge" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fledge | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fledge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që mund të fluturojë, nxjerr pupla, mbulohet me pupla. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отглеждам (breed, bring up, cradle, cultivate, flower, grow, incubate, nourish, nurse, raise, rear, tend), оперушинвам, опервам се (perk). (various references) | |
Czech | vystlat peřím. (various references) | |
German | erwachsen werden (reach adulthood), erwachsen werde. (various references) | |
Greek | πτερώνω (wing), ανατρέφω (bring up, raise, rear). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להצמיח נוצות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | feltollaz (to feather). (various references) | |
Italian | spuntare le penne, ricoprirsi di piume. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edgeflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | emplumar (feather, plume), empenar (warp). (various references) | |
Romanian | se acoperi cu pene, creşte o pasãre pânã când poate zbura, a-i creşte pene la aripi. (various references) | |
Russian | оперяться. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odhraniti ptiće, dobiti perje. (various references) | |
Spanish | plumar. (various references) | |
Swedish | förse med fjädrar (feather), föda upp fågelunge, få fjädrar (feather). (various references) | |
Turkish | tüylerle kaplamak, tüyleri çıkmak, tüyleri çıkıncaya kadar bakmak, tüylenmek (feather), tüylendirmek (nap), tüy takmak (feather). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вигодувати пташенят, оперятися (feather). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fledge": fledged, fledges. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fledge": unfledged. (additional references) | |
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"Fledge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elledge, felde, feldeggii, feldene, fladge, Fleagle, fledger, fleege, flege, fleged, Flegel, flidget, Fliegel, fludger, fluge, fredge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fledge" (pronounced fle"j) |
| 3 | -l e" j | allege, ledge, pledge, sledge. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-g-l" | |
-1 letter: glede, gleed, ledge. | |
-2 letters: dele, delf, edge, feed, feel, fled, flee, geed, geld, gled, glee. | |
-3 letters: dee, del, eel, eld, elf, fed, fee, ged, gee, gel, led, lee, leg. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, ef, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-g-l" | |
+1 letter: fledged, fledges. | |
+2 letters: begulfed, effulged, engulfed, fenagled, fledgier, gulfweed. | |
+3 letters: beflagged, defleaing, filagreed, filigreed, fledgiest, gulfweeds, unfledged. | |
+4 letters: deflagrate, deflecting, greenfield, newfangled. | |
+5 letters: deafeningly, deflagrated, deflagrates, deflowering, flagellated, frankpledge, freeloading, genuflected, leapfrogged, lifeguarded, unfeignedly. | |
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