cadet
A student at a military school who is training to be an officerA student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
» Tom is a cadet.
Значение
значений: 6A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
Kadett, Offiziersanwärter
курса́нтkursánt, каде́тkadét, ю́нкерjúnker
A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
jüngerer Bruder, jüngerer Sohn
(в составных словах)Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
a cadet branch of the family
(Новая Зеландия, историческое)A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
(Австралия)A participant in a cadetship.
(США, архаичное, сленг)A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
- a military trainee (as at a military academy)
Примеры
предложений: 7Tom is a cadet.
The officer told the cadet to get back to work.
Regulus, the dog, lectured the new dog cadets on the history of cat warfare.
Ziri is a cadet.
Ziri was a cadet.
Переводы
языков: 6По значениям 1
По значениям 2
Происхождение
Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”).Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634.
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Формы
мн. число: cadetsСинонимы
синонимов: 1- a military trainee (as at a military academy):plebe