cadet
Meanings
Plural: cadets
Noun
- a military trainee (as at a military academy)
- A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
- A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
- Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
- A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
- A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
- A participant in a cadetship.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634.
Doublet of caddie, cadel, capital, capitellum, caudillo, and Kadet.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
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Words With Friends Score: 9
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