cadet

CEFRB2

/kəˈdɛt/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A student training to become a military officer or police officer.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.

Examples

  • The officer told the cadet to get back to work.

  • Ziri is a cadet.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)

  2. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.

  3. A participant in a cadetship.

More examples

In context

  • a cadet branch of the family

  • 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.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The young blank trained for months to become a commissioned officer.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

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.