cadet

Значение (Английский)

  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.

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Произносится как (IPA)
/kəˈdɛt/
Этимология (Английский)

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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