eaglet

«eaglet» in Mova's school dictionary: A young eagle, still a baby or chick — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an eaglet, eaglets)

meaning for a pupil

1) A young eagle, still a baby or chick. tree →

2) In Alice in Wonderland, the Eaglet is a young bird in the pool of tears and the Caucus-race who tells the Dodo to «Speak English!» because it does not understand his long words. tree →

sense in the lessons

The ending -let means small, as in piglet, booklet, droplet. In science lessons, eaglets hatch from eggs in a big nest called an eyrie and are fed by both parents until they can fly. In Alice the Eaglet stands for Alice's sister Edith; the Dodo is Carroll himself.

examples

• The eaglet waited in the nest for its mother. tree →
• «Speak English!» said the Eaglet. tree →
• Eaglets are covered in soft grey down. tree →
• Two eaglets hatched in the eyrie this spring. tree →
• The eaglet flapped its wings for the first time. tree →
• The webcam shows the eaglets being fed. tree →
• "The young eaglet!" cried the miller. tree →

note

Use «an eaglet» (starts with a vowel sound). Baby animal words: eaglet, owlet, duckling, cygnet, fawn, cub.

In the corpora

• The Eaglet says "Speak English!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «eaglet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.