cadet

nounattested in dialogue

United States//kəˈdɛt//

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

noun

1
A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
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
Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
a cadet branch of the family
4
archaicA young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
5
historicalA young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
6
A participant in a cadetship.

Etymology

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.

Forms

plural: cadets

Caddy · A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.cade · abandoned by its mother and reared by hand Cade · A surname

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

Cadet · A surname from French.Cadillac · A brand of luxury automobile (founded as an independent but…caesar · An emperor of Ancient Rome.

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