# winged

Pronunciation: say "WINGD" /wɪŋ(ɪ)d/

## Adjective

1. Equipped with wings, the paired limbs or organs that many animals use for flight.
   - Simple: Having wings, like a bird, a bat, or an insect.
   - _Winged insects appeared in the fossil record long before the dinosaurs._
   - _A pair of winged stone lions guarded the palace gate._
3. Having wings of a specified kind, as indicated by an accompanying descriptive term.
   - Simple: Having wings of a particular kind, set by the describing word in front.
   - _The white-winged dove is common across the southwestern deserts._
   - _The species is membranously winged, lacking any trace of feathers._
4. Having the specified number of wings, as indicated by a numeric modifier.
   - Simple: Having a certain number of wings, set by the number word in front.
   - _Dragonflies are four-winged, beating each pair independently._
   - _The order Diptera is two-winged, the hind pair reduced to balancing organs._
5. Moving through the air, or seeming to, with the freedom and lightness of flight.
   - Simple: Moving lightly and quickly through the air, as if flying.
   - _Hope gave the travelers winged feet on the final climb._
   - _Her winged imagination ranged far beyond the small village she knew._
6. Moving with great swiftness and speed.
   - Simple: Moving very fast, almost like flying.
   - _The army's winged advance caught the defenders unprepared._
   - _Rumor traveled on winged feet through the village._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of wing. — simple past and past participle of wing (pronounced: say "WINGD" /wɪŋd/)
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of wing. Use it for the past, or after has, have or had.
   - _A stray pellet winged the bird without killing it._
   - _The migrating cranes winged across the valley at dusk._
7. Simple past and past participle of winge. Chiefly British and Australian; the usual spelling is whinged. *(slang, Australia, New Zealand, UK)* — simple past and past participle of winge (pronounced: say "WINJD" /wɪnd͡ʒd/)
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of winge. British and Australian slang for complained, usually spelled whinged.

## Origin

From Middle English winged or wenged ("having wings"), the past participle of wingen, which came from the noun winge, wenge.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/winged (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).