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cadet

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  • Stati Uniti//kəˈdɛt//

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

sostantivo

  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

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

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    A participant in a cadetship.

Etimologia

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.

Forme

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