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Uncommoncadet
The correct spelling is cadet.
How to pronounce cadet
/kəˈdɛt/
nounIPA: /kəˈdɛt/
Say it like: Cad-et
The correct spelling is cadet. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer. For example: "a cadet branch of the family"
Usage Examples
“a cadet branch of the family”
Definition
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.(in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
- 4.A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
- 5.A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
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