cadet
nomattesté dans les dialogues
- États-Unis//kəˈdɛt//
A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
nom
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A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
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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.
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Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
a cadet branch of the family
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archaïqueA young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
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historiqueA young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
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A participant in a cadetship.
Étymologie
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.
Formes
- pluriel
- cadets
cadet · A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
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