CADET

Cadet

A cadet is a trainee. The term is frequently used to refer those training to become an officer in the military, often a person who is a junior trainee. Its meaning may vary between countries. The term is also used in civilian contexts and as a general attributive, for example in its original sense of a branch of a ruling house which is not currently in the direct line of succession.

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cadet

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.
  3. Junior.
    a cadet branch of the family


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