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cadet

Pronunciation: /kəˈdɛt/

The English word “cadet” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
  2. A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
  3. Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
  4. A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
  5. A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
  6. A participant in a cadetship.

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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