Cadet Meaning
/kəˈdɛt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
nounA younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
Sentence Examples
The officer told the cadet to get back to work.
Ziri is a cadet.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The young ____ trained for months to become a commissioned officer.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The young ____ worked hard to finish his training at the military.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634. Doublet of caddie, cadeau, cadel, capital, capitellum, and caudillo.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Bertram is certainly well off for a cadet of even a Baronet's family. By the time he is four or five and twenty he will have seven hundred a year, and nothing to do for it."
— 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 114:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The young ____ trained for months to become a commissioned officer.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The young ____ worked hard to finish his training at the military.