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Cadet

/kəˈdɛt/

A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.

📖 Definitions of "Cadet"

noun

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, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
"a cadet branch of the family"
4
A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.

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