different between fledgling vs experience

English

Alternative forms

• fledgeling

Etymology

From fledge (“prepare for flying”) +? -ling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?d??.l??/

Adjective

fledgling (not comparable)

1. Untried or inexperienced.
   • 2011, Jay A. Gertzman, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940:

     His trenchant criticisms of the Church's repression […] include a discussion of the considerable 1938 success of the fledgling NODL in getting magazines removed from various points of sale.

2. Emergent or rising.

Synonyms

• (untried): unfledged, virginal
• (emergent): nascent, emerging

Translations

Noun

fledgling (plural fledglings)

1. A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).
2. An insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago.
3. (figuratively) An immature, naïve or inexperienced person.

Translations

See also

• hatchling

References

• fledgeling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Middle English experience, from Old French, from Latin experientia (“a trial, proof, experiment, experimental knowledge, experience”), from experiens, present participle of experiri (“to try, put to the test, undertake, undergo”), from ex (“out”) + peritus (“experienced, expert”), past participle of *periri (“to go through”); see expert and peril.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??.i.?ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??.???ns/
• Hyphenation: ex?pe?ri?ence

Noun

experience (countable and uncountable, plural experiences)

1. The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
   • March 20, 1684-5, John Sharp, Sermon preached at Whitehall

     Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.
2. (countable) An activity one has performed.
3. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
   • 1600, Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie

     they knew soone by experience how slenderly guarded against danger, the majestie of Rulers is

   • Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.

4. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
5. (obsolete, uncountable) Trial; a test or experiment.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "experience": broad, wide, good, bad, great, amazing, horrible, terrible, pleasant, unpleasant, educational, financial, military, commercial, academic, political, industrial, sexual, romantic, religious, mystical, spiritual, psychedelic, scientific, human, magical, intense, deep, humbling, unforgettable, unique, exciting, exhilarating.

Antonyms

• inexperience

Hyponyms

• (activity one has performed): user experience

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

experience (third-person singular simple present experiences, present participle experiencing, simple past and past participle experienced)

1. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

Synonyms

• undergo

Derived terms

• experienceable
• re-experience. reexperience

Translations

Further reading

• experience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• experience at OneLook Dictionary Search
• experience in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "experience" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 126.
• experience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• experience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.