winged Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb travel through the air; be airborne
    fly; wing.
    • Man cannot fly
  2. adjective having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind;
    • the winged feet of Mercury
  3. adjective satellite very fast; as if with wings
    • on winged feet

WordNet

Winged adjective
Definitions
  1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.
  2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime. R.
    How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake. J. S. Harford.
  3. Swift; rapid. "Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to the lord marshal." Shak.
  4. Wounded or hurt in the wing.
  5. (Bot.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.
  6. (Her.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.
  7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. "The winged air darked with plumes." Milton.

Webster 1913