cadet

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(Anglès)

A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
(in-compounds) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
(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.

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/kəˈdɛt/

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.