cadet en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /kəˈdɛt/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- (Australia) audio
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.
Meanings
- A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
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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.
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 114:
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(in genealogy, in-compounds) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
a cadet branch of the family
- (US, archaic, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
- (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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cadets | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
cadet grey · space cadet · cadet branch · air cadet · cadet blue · cadetcy · officer cadet · cadet house · cadet gray
Relateds
Translations (50)
mk питомец (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · sq kadete (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · be кадзет (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · be кадэт (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · is kadett (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · fi kadetti (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · it cadetto (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · pl kadet (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · ga dalta airm (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · pl junior (younger son) · eo kadeto (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · be кадзетка (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · it cadetto (younger son) · de jüngerer Sohn (younger son) · be курсантка (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · bg ю́нкер (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · fr cadet (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · ga dalta (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · nb kadett (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · ar تِمْلِيذَة عَسْكَرِيَّة (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · fa دانشجوی افسری (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · ar تِمْلِيذ عَسْكَرِيّ (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · hu kadét (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · da yngre søn (younger son) · de Kadett (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · de Offiziersanwärter (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · be кадэтка (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · be курсант (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · ru курса́нт (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · de jüngerer Bruder (younger son) · tl kadete (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · da kadet (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · cmn 學員 /学员 (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · sv kadett (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · bg каде́т (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · sq kadet (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · cmn 軍校生 /军校生 (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · ru ю́нкер (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · lt kariūnas (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · mi tama hōia (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · ru каде́т (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · ca cadet (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · hu kadéta (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · mi hōia tauira (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · fr puîné (younger son) · gd òglach (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · nn kadett (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · it allievo ufficiale (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer) · wa racoulot (younger son) · pt cadete (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer)