"skyling" meaning in All languages combined

See skyling on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: skylings [plural]
Etymology: From sky + -ling. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sky|ling}} sky + -ling Head templates: {{en-noun}} skyling (plural skylings)
  1. A being from the sky or heavens. Hyponyms: skymaiden

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1899, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine ... - Volume 26 - Page 124:",
          "text": "Our actor is either one whose ambitions lead him to hitch his wagon to a star and scorn all sublunary things, or one stolidly content to please — not the aristocratic groundlings, but the skylings.",
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          "text": "For the first time I realised with amazing clearness that the sky was no blue expanse overhead but an abyss . . . and that we live in that sky stuck to a speck, the earth, and ought really to be called skylings, not earthlings. Miserable skylings!",
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          "text": "A Skyling suddenly swooped down and snatched Starz right off the ground and flew off.",
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