Flightling

Quick meaning: Flightling is a noun meaning One who flees or takes flight; an escapee, fugitive, or refugee.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Refugees, flightlings, black things, whose dissident passage through understanding is often taken for a kind of lawless freedom.

We were the witnesses not of a few handsful of casual flightlings, but of the general exodus of the inhabitants of a whole territory.

“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.

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.

Word Forms

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