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adjective

full-fledged adj.

Having reached full development with fully grown adult plumage; ready to fly; of a bird. fledgling

Synonyms: fully fledged.

Having gained full status; of persons in respect to human roles; as, a full-fledged lawyer; by the age of seventeen I was a full-fledged atheist.

Synonyms: fully fledged.

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Etymology of 'Full-fledged'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... and then she burst out laughing and took her sister by the shoulders. "Grannie," she said solemnly, "you just idolise that boy. If it would do him any good you would lie down and let him trample on you. Have I not often warned you that if you go on like this you will turn him out a full-fledged tyrant? Human nature—masculine human nature I mean," correcting herself—"will not stand it. An enfant gate is always odious to sensible people. Now, if you were to try and spoil me," expanding herself until she looked twice her size, "I should only bloom out into fresh beauty—approbation, ...

— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... thus modestly described as unlike those of our own century might easily, except for the appetizing smell of the cooking fowls and the meats, have been put under lock and key and turned over to a care-taker as a full-fledged culinary museum of antiquities. One entire side of the crowded but orderly little room was taken up by a huge open fireplace. The logs resting on the great andirons were the trunks of full-grown trees. On two of the spits were long rows of fowl and ...

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