Usually means: Unattractive young bird becomes beautiful.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word ugly duckling:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. ugly duckling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ugly duckling: Merriam-Webster
  3. ugly duckling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ugly duckling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ugly duckling: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ugly duckling: Vocabulary.com
  7. ugly duckling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ugly duckling: Wiktionary
  9. ugly duckling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ugly duckling: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ugly duckling: Dictionary.com
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  13. ugly duckling: Rhymezone
  14. ugly duckling: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ugly duckling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. ugly duckling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Ugly Duckling, Ugly Duckling: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ugly duckling: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ugly duckling, ugly-duckling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ugly_ducklings as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ugly duckling)

noun:  (idiomatic) A young person who is ugly, but who is expected to become beautiful or handsome as they mature.

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