What is "cadet" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does cadet mean in English? Meaning of cadet definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "cadet" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "cadet": a military trainee (as at a military academy)

Noun

  • Meaning: a military trainee (as at a military academy)
  • Synonyms: cadet plebe
  • Hyponyms: midshipman
  • Hypernyms: trainee
  • Adjective: A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.(largely historical) 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.) a cadet branch of the family(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.
  • Synonyms:

    youth, student, recruit, junior, plebe, midshipman,

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