Meaning

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

    Kadett, Offiziersanwärter

    курса́нтkursánt, каде́тkadét, ю́нкерjúnker

  2. A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.

    jüngerer Bruder, jüngerer Sohn

  3. (in compounds)Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)

    a cadet branch of the family

  4. (New Zealand, historical)A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.

  5. (Australia)A participant in a cadetship.

  6. (US, archaic, slang)A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.

More definitions
  • a military trainee (as at a military academy)

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Tom is a cadet.

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  2. The officer told the cadet to get back to work.

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  3. Regulus, the dog, lectured the new dog cadets on the history of cat warfare.

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  4. Ziri is a cadet.

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  5. Ziri was a cadet.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a student at a military school who is training to be an officer:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
a student at a military school who is training to be an officer:
younger son:

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: cadets
Singularcadet
Pluralcadets

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a military trainee (as at a military academy):plebe

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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