CADET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cadet mean? 

• CADET (noun)
  The noun CADET has 1 sense:

1. a military trainee (as at a military academy)

  Familiarity information: CADET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CADET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military trainee (as at a military academy)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cadet; plebe

Hypernyms ("cadet" is a kind of...):

trainee (someone who is being trained)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cadet"):

midshipman (a temporary rank held by young naval officers in training)

Derivation:

cadetship (the position of cadet)

 Context examples 

Dare you to wear your brother's coat without the crescent which should stamp you as his cadet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bertram is certainly well off for a cadet of even a baronet's family.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He was indeed a scion of one of the very oldest families in the kingdom, though his branch was a cadet one which had separated from the northern Musgraves some time in the sixteenth century, and had established itself in western Sussex, where the Manor House of Hurlstone is perhaps the oldest inhabited building in the county.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was the night of a little party at the Doctor's, which was given on the occasion of Mr. Jack Maldon's departure for India, whither he was going as a cadet, or something of that kind: Mr. Wickfield having at length arranged the business.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I telled Mary how it would be, he said: I knew what Mr. Edward (John was an old servant, and had known his master when he was the cadet of the house, therefore, he often gave him his Christian name)—I knew what Mr. Edward would do; and I was certain he would not wait long neither: and he's done right, for aught I know.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)