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Word entry · 5 letters

cadet

Best crossword clue

"Military trainee"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /kəˈdɛt/Part of speech nounSorted acdetStarts with CEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2A3D4E5T

Definitions

  1. a military trainee (as at a military academy)

Word origin

Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • a cadet branch of the family

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