Associations to the word «Cadet»

Wiktionary

CADET, noun. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
CADET, noun. (largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
CADET, noun. (in compounds) (chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
CADET, noun. (archaic) (US) (slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
CADET, noun. (NZ) (historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
CADET BLUE, noun. A blue colour, tinted with grey.
CADET BLUE, adjective. Of a blue colour, tinted with grey.

Dictionary definition

CADET, noun. A military trainee (as at a military academy).

Wise words

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.