The young cadet dreamed of becoming a senior officer after graduation.
VERB + CADET
train
CADET + NOUN
corps
Definitions
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.
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.
3
Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
a cadet branch of the family
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.
name
1
A surname from French.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a military trainee (as at a military academy)
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.
Wiktionary
02
a cadet branch of the family
Wiktionary
03
The officer told the cadet to get back to work.
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04
When I was a cadet, I had no idea what I was getting myself into joining the army.
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05
Ziri is a cadet.
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06
Ziri was a cadet.
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Usage Notes
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In some senses, cadet is marked as archaic, slang, US, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.