winged
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6.5
- adjective
- /wɪŋd/
- Archaic
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- She moved like a winged creature, darting across the field at incredible speed.
- winged messenger
- winged feet
- winged horses
Examples
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On the day of the wedding, she was more winged than ever, exactly when, curiously enough, her wings were less evident than at any other time in her life.
Fiction book (1997) -
- She was like a winged bullet up there.
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Fly, rumor, on winged feet.
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Rise and shine, my winged warriors.
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Audrey walked all day, swinging along as if she were the Winged Victory.
Fiction book (1994) -
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near
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What should have been winged words barely crept along, earthbound.
Fiction book (1995) -
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes
Blog text (26) -
Free, quick-winged, and light.
Fiction book (2001) -
Birds descending from the heavens, like winged messengers from above, beckoning.
Synonyms
1
3.7
Moving quickly through the air like a bird or a jet
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
8.5
A small duck with a blue patch on its wings found in North America
1
5.8
A North American blackbird with bright red and yellow shoulder patches on males
A bird with long legs that wades in shallow water and has a white body with black wings
- Indian
A tropical climbing plant with edible pods that have four raised edges and thick edible roots
- Offensive
An insulting name for a flying animal like a pigeon that people see as dirty or annoying
- Australian
A plant from Australia with silvery white flowers, yellow centers, and winged stems
- UK
A European plant that lives one year with spreading stems and edible pods with four wings
- Indian
A tropical climbing plant with edible pods that have four jagged wings and roots that store food
A bushy wild plant that lives one year and has green flowers and seeds with thin flat parts
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Winged comes from the idea of wing as the part that lets you 'fly', and people long ago used that image to mean 'very fast'. So calling someone winged, as in 'winged feet' or a 'winged messenger', means they move as if they have wings and can go very fast.