cadet

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

trainee

plebe

apprentice

student

🧑‍🎓

military cadet

brothers-in-arms

intern

junior

Translations

cadet

cadetto

cadete

Kadett

cadete

cadet

kadet

accademista

cadet

δόκιμος

élève officier

Fähnrich

junker

hobereau

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈdɛt/

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.