cadet
/K AH0 D EH1 T/noun
- 1
A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
- 2
A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
- 3
(in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
โa cadet branch of the familyโ
- 4
A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
- 5
A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
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