Eaglet
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The immature young of an eagle; an eagle chick.
"He [Christopher North] speaks in his "Second Canticle" of "the imps," "the eaglets," "the young ones," "the bursting of the shells," as though it were the commoner occurrence for there to be several eaglets in a nest. This is not the case."
- 2 a young eagle wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"An eaglet can fall out of its nest before it learns to fly."
Etymology
From eagle + -let (diminutive suffix).