Cadet
/kəˈdɛt/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:8 ptsWWF:9 pts5 letters
Definition of Cadet
noun
- 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.
- (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
"a cadet branch of the family"
- 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.
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