Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

flightling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: flightling
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who flees or takes flight; an escapee, fugitive, or refugee.

noun

A young or little flyer (person or creature that flies).

Example Sentences

"We were the witnesses not of a few handsful of casual flightlings, but of the general exodus of the inhabitants of a whole territory."
"Refugees, flightlings, black things, whose dissident passage through understanding is often taken for a kind of lawless freedom."
"Her mother, the flightling, fighting her way across an inky sea, washing up on a foreign shore with empty pockets, building a new life in a strange land, with nothing to pass on to her daughter from her home but the sounds of her mother tongue."
"In that country style place with an abundant garden the lady of the house would put special toast slices, a nutty high-grain variety dried to an ideal texture for birds, out for the collection of flightlings that attended the daily garden feast."
"“Very good, flightlings,” Tanta said as she passed them. “Soon you'll be flying. Then you won't be in the baby glade any more.” The flightlings smiled proudly at each other. “Why haven't you got wings?” Tam asked Tanta shyly."

Etymology

From flight (“fleeing”) + -ling. Cognate with West Frisian flechtling (“refugee”), Dutch vluchteling (“refugee”), German Low German Flüchtling (“refugee”), German Flüchtling (“refugee”). Compare also Danish flygtning (“refugee”), Swedish flykting (“refugee”), Norwegian flyktning (“refugee”).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: flight

Inflected Forms

flightlings (plural)

Questions

What does flightling mean?: One who flees or takes flight; an escapee, fugitive, or refugee.
Where does flightling come from?: From flight (“fleeing”) + -ling. Cognate with West Frisian flechtling (“refugee”), Dutch vluchteling (“refugee”), German Low German Flüchtling (“refugee”), German Flüchtling (“refugee”). Compare also Danish flygtning (“refugee”), Swedish flykting (“refugee”), Norwegian flyktning (“refugee”).

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