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.
Meaning
6 sensesA 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
(in compounds)Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
a cadet branch of the family
(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.
(US, archaic, slang)A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
- a military trainee (as at a military academy)
Examples
7 sentencesTom 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.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
Origin
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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Forms
plural: cadetsSynonyms
1 synonyms- a military trainee (as at a military academy):plebe