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full-dress |
full-dress uniform |
full-drive |
full-face |
full-fashioned |
full-fledged
| full-formed
| full-grown
| full-hearted
| full-hot
| full-length
full-fledged
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective full-fledged has 2 senses
- full-fledged(s = adj.all) fully fledged - (of a bird) having reached full development with fully grown adult plumage; ready to fly; Array
- full-fledged(s = adj.all) fully fledged - (of persons, e.g.) having gained full status; "a full-fledged lawyer"; "by the age of seventeen I was a full-fledged atheist"; "sees itself as a fully fledged rival party"
CIDE DICTIONARY
full-fledged, adj.
- having reached full development with fully grown adult plumage; ready to fly; -- of a bird. [WordNet 1.5]
- 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. [WordNet 1.5]
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