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ALL meanings of cadet

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  • countable noun cadet A cadet is a young man or woman who is being trained in the armed services or the police. 3
  • noun cadet a young person undergoing preliminary training, usually before full entry to the uniformed services, police, etc, esp for officer status 3
  • noun cadet a school pupil receiving elementary military training in a school corps 3
  • noun cadet (in England and in France before 1789) a gentleman, usually a younger son, who entered the army to prepare for a commission 3
  • noun cadet a younger son or brother 3
  • noun cadet (in New Zealand) a person learning sheep farming on a sheep station 3
  • noun cadet a younger son who became a gentleman volunteer in the army to offset his lack of patrimony 3
  • noun cadet a student in training at an armed forces academy 3
  • noun cadet a student at a military school 3
  • noun cadet any trainee, as a practice teacher or a junior business associate 3
  • noun cadet a pimp 3
  • noun cadet A young trainee in the armed services or police force. 1
  • noun Technical meaning of cadet Computer Aided Design Experimental Translator. 1
  • noun cadet a member of the former Constitutional Democratic Party. 1
  • noun cadet military: trainee 1
  • noun cadet A student at a military school who is training to be an officer. 0
  • noun cadet (largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would. 0
  • noun cadet (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.). 0
  • noun cadet (Slang) (archaic, US) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels. 0
  • noun cadet (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station. 0
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