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cadet
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As a noun, cadet means a student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
Meanings of cadet
7 meaningsnoun
A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
largely historicalA younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
in compoundschiefly in genealogyJunior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
“a cadet branch of the family”
AustraliaA participant in a cadetship.
A military trainee (as at a military academy)person
Similar: plebe
Older and rare meanings (2)
archaicUSslangA young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
nzhistoricalA young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).