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Cadet

//kəˈdɛt// name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from French.
Noun
  1. 1
    A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
  2. 2
    a military trainee (as at a military academy) wordnet
  3. 3
    A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.

    "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."

  4. 4
    Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.) in-compounds

    "a cadet branch of the family"

  5. 5
    A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels. US, archaic, slang
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  1. 6
    A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station. New-Zealand, historical
  2. 7
    A participant in a cadetship. Australia

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634. Doublet of caddie, cadeau, cadel, capital, capitellum, and caudillo.

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