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winged

/wɪŋɪd/

winged adjective: having wings. Also the simple past and past participle of wing.

Adjective

winged (not comparable)

  1. 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...2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32
    1. (in-compounds) Having wings of a specified kind.
      • weak-winged
    2. (in-compounds) Having the specified number of wings.
      • The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.
  2. Flying or soaring as if on wings.
  3. 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.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

Also used as

winged is also the simple past and past participle of wing.

winged is also the simple past and past participle of winge.

winged meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

winged in Hindi

पंखों वाला, पंखों वाली

winged in Urdu

پروں والا, پنکھوں والا

winged in Bengali

ডানাওয়ালা

winged in Telugu

రెక్కలు గలవి
More languagesFewer languages
winged in Kannada
ರೆಕ್ಕೆಗಳುಳ್ಳ
winged in Punjabi
ਖੰਭਾਂ ਵਾਲਾ, ਖੰਭਾਂ ਵਾਲੇ, ਖੰਭਦਾਰ
winged in Gujarati
પાંખવાળા, પાંખવાળી, પાંખવાળું
winged in Persian
بالدار bāldār

Examples of winged in a sentence

  • Winged helicopter seeds fall with rapid flutters to the ground.
  • Some heterogynous insects have winged males and wingless females.
  • In general, dolmans are recognizable for their winged kimono-like sleeves and T shape.

All 39 example sentences with winged

Antonyms of winged

Forms of winged

alternative formwingèd

Origin of winged

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

See wing (verb).

See winge (verb).

Words formed from winged

Phrases with winged

Words that rhyme with winged

Questions about winged

What does winged mean?
Winged means having wings.
What is winged in Hindi?
Winged in Hindi is पंखों वाला, पंखों वाली. See Winged meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is winged?
Winged is an adjective.
How do you pronounce winged?
Winged is pronounced /wɪŋɪd/.

Words near winged in the dictionary

  1. wingdogs
  2. wingdom
  3. wingdoms
  4. winge
  5. Wingecarribee
  6. winged
  7. winged bean
  8. winged beans
  9. winged it
  10. winged monkeys
  11. winged pea

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: winged (page history and authors); winged (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); winged (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); winged (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); winged (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); winged (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); winged (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); winged (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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