cadet
IPA: kʌdˈɛt
noun
- A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
- (chiefly history) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
- (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
- (archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
- (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
- (Australia) A participant in a cadetship.
- A surname from French.
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Examples of "cadet" in Sentences
- Accompanies promotion to the grade of Cadet Airman.
- The cadet responsible is then reprimanded for the action.
- Generally the lower the number, the older the cadet corps.
- The events invoke confidence and sportsmanship in the cadets.
- The cadet corps was under the leadership of Cadet Joseph Leer.
- Only the active duty officers evaluate and stratify the cadets.
- The National Cadet Under Officer has red in the centre of the lozenge.
- The 27th Coy of NCC is located inside school premises to train the cadets.
- The corps of cadets also serves as cadet members of the unorganized militia.
- The Ensign of the Sea Cadet Corps is a blue ensign defaced by the SCC badge.