cadet
See also: Cadet
English
Etymology
From French cadet, from Gascon Occitan capdet, from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”). Attested in English from 1634.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kəˈdɛt/
- Rhymes: -ɛt
- Hyphenation: ca‧det
Noun
cadet (plural cadets)
- 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.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 114:
- 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.
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- (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.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
a student at a military school who is training to be an officer
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References
- “cadet” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “cadet” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.dɛ/
Audio (file)
Adjective
cadet (feminine singular cadette, masculine plural cadets, feminine plural cadettes)
- (family) youngest
- le fils cadet ― the youngest son
Noun
cadet m (plural cadets)
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “cadet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
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