cageling
/ˈkeɪdʒlɪŋ/
noun
- A bird that is kept in a cage; a captive bird.
- The cageling sang sadly, longing for the open sky.
- The poet compared himself to a cageling, trapped by society's rules.
- She rescued a cageling from a pet store and released it into the wild.
- A person who is confined or feels trapped, like a prisoner.
- In the novel, the protagonist is a cageling in her own home, controlled by her family.
- After years in the small town, he felt like a cageling, desperate to escape.
- The office worker was a cageling in a cubicle, dreaming of adventure.
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