cadet

Significat (Anglès)

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. (in-compounds) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
4. (US, archaic, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
5. (New-Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
6. (Australia) A participant in a cadetship.

Conceptes

cadet

Sinònims

trainee

plebe

apprentice

student

🧑‍🎓

military cadet

brothers-in-arms

intern

junior

Traduccions

cadetto

cadet

cadete

Kadett

cadete

kadet

cadet

accademista

Fähnrich

δόκιμος

élève officier

élève-officier

junker

hobereau

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kəˈdɛt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

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.