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plural cadets
A student at a military school who is training to be an officer. examples
(chiefly history) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would. quotations
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.
1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], page 114
(in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.) examples
(archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
(New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
(Australia) A participant in a cadetship. examples