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cadet

Substantivin Dialogen belegt

  • Vereinigte Staaten//kəˈdɛt//

A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.

  2. 2

    A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.

    Bertram is certainly well off for a cadet of even a Baronet's family. By the time he is four or five and twenty he will have seven hundred a year, and nothing to do for it.

  3. 3

    Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)

    a cadet branch of the family

  4. 4

    altertümlichA young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.

  5. 5

    historischA young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.

  6. 6

    A participant in a cadetship.

Herkunft

Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634. Doublet of caddie, cadeau, cadel, capital, capitellum, and caudillo.

Formen

Plural
cadets
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