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.