winged

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/wɪŋɪd/
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/wɪŋɪd/ · /wɪŋd/ · /wɪnd͡ʒd/

Definition of winged

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Having wings.
    “The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Having wings.
    “The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.”
  2. (in-compounds, not-comparable)Having wings.
    “weak-winged”
  3. (in-compounds, not-comparable)Having wings.
    “The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.”
  4. (not-comparable)Flying or soaring as if on wings.
  5. (not-comparable)Swift.
    “Come Tamburlain, now whet thy winged ſword And lift thy loftie arme into the cloudes, That it may reach the King of Perſeas crowne, And ſet it ſafe on my victorious head.”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of wing
  2. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of winge

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Etymology

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

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