cadet

UK /kəˈdɛt/ US /kəˈdɛt/
noun 5name 1

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.

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