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Definitions for Cadet

[1] a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
[2] a student in training for service as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army, Air Force, or Coast Guard. Compare midshipman(def 1) .
[3] a trainee in a business or profession.
[4] a younger son or brother.
[5] the youngest son.
[6] (formerly) a gentleman, usually a younger son, who entered the army to prepare for a subsequent commission.
[7] Also called cadet blue . a grayish to strong blue color.
[8] Also called cadet gray . a bluish-gray to purplish-blue color.
[9] Slang . a pimp.
[10] a member of the former Constitutional Democratic Party.
[11] a young person undergoing preliminary training, usually before full entry to the uniformed services, police, etc, esp for officer status
[12] a school pupil receiving elementary military training in a school corps
[13] (in England and in France before 1789) a gentleman, usually a younger son, who entered the army to prepare for a commission
[14] a younger son or brother
[15] cadet branch the family or family branch of a younger son
[16] (in New Zealand) a person learning sheep farming on a sheep station

Words related to Cadet

youth, student, recruit, junior, plebe, midshipman

Words nearby Cadet

cadency, cadent, cadent house, cadential, cadenza, cadet, cadet cloth, cadette, cadge, cadger, cadgy

Origin of Cadet

< Russian kadét, equivalent to ka + de (the letter names of k, d, representing konstitutsiónnyĭ demokrát Constitutional Democrat) + -t from kadét (now obsolete) cadet

Other words from Cadet

ca·det·ship , noun

Word origin for Cadet

C17: from French, from dialect (Gascon) capdet captain, ultimately from Latin caput head

Synonyms for Cadet

student, youth, junior, midshipman, plebe, recruit