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cadets

The correct spelling is cadets.

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noun

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The correct spelling is cadets. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer. For example: "a cadet branch of the family"

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a cadet branch of the family

Definition

noun

  1. 1.A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
  2. 2.A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
  3. 3.(in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
  4. 4.A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
  5. 5.A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.

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