Cadet
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kəˈdɛt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cadet is a noun meaning A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
Meaning
A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
More Meanings
- (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
- (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
- (Australia) A participant in a cadetship.
- (chiefly history) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
- (archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
Example Sentences
a cadet branch of the family
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.
Word Forms
- cadets
Synonyms for cadet
Depending on context, synonyms include plebe.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include plebe, officer, apprentice, trainee, pupil, student.
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