Meaning of Cadet | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“a cadet branch of the family”

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