winged

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb travel through the air; be airborne
  2. adjective having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind
  3. adjective very fast; as if with wings

Etymology

From Middle English winged, wenged (“having wings”), past participle of wingen, from the noun winge, wenge.

Synonyms

fly, wing

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