Usually means: New and inexperienced; just beginning.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word fledgling:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. fledgling: Merriam-Webster
  2. fledgling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fledgling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fledgling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fledgling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fledgling, fledgling: Wordnik
  7. fledgling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fledgling: Wiktionary
  9. fledgling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fledgling (fledgeling): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fledgling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fledgling: Dictionary.com
  13. fledgling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Fledgling (birds), Fledgling (novel), Fledgling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. fledgling: Rhymezone
  16. fledgling: FreeDictionary.org
  17. fledgling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. fledg(e)ling, fledgling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. fledgling: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. fledgling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fledgling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fledgling: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fledgling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fledglings as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Untried or inexperienced.
adjective:  Emergent or rising.
noun:  A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).
noun:  An insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago.
noun:  (figuratively) An immature, naïve or inexperienced person.

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