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.
Значення
значень: 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
(у складних словах)Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
a cadet branch of the family
(Нова Зеландія, історичне)A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
(Австралія)A participant in a cadetship.
(США, архаїчне, сленг)A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
- a military trainee (as at a military academy)
Приклади
речень: 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.
Переклади
мов: 6За значеннями 1
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Походження
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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Форми
множина: cadetsСиноніми
синонімів: 1- a military trainee (as at a military academy):plebe