Definitions
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”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Military trainee”5 letters
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