full-fledged

[ fool-flejd ]
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adjective
  1. of full rank or standing: a full-fledged professor.

  2. fully developed.

Origin of full-fledged

1
First recorded in 1880–85

Words Nearby full-fledged

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How to use full-fledged in a sentence

  • He looked young to be an uncle, younger still to be, as he was, a full-fledged lieutenant in the 200th.

    Robin Redbreast | Mary Louisa Molesworth
  • I'm a doctor—not quite full fledged, I'll admit, but with the right to put M. D. after my name.

    The White Desert | Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • Will get more work and more pay, when a full-fledged barrister.

  • Besides, let me but have him a short time longer and who knows but that a full fledged Confederate may be the result?

    A Daughter of the Union | Lucy Foster Madison
  • He had graduated with high honors, and, much to his mother's annoyance, had established himself as a full-fledged M. D.

    Jolly Sally Pendleton | Laura Jean Libbey

British Dictionary definitions for full-fledged

full-fledged

adjective

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