cadet
Syllables: ca·detUK/kəˈdɛt/
cadet noun: a student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
Noun (1)
cadet (plural cadets)
- A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
- A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
- Bertram is certainly well off for a cadet of even a Baronet's family. By the time he is four or five and twenty he will have seven hundred a year, and nothing to do for it.1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 114
- Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
- a cadet branch of the family
- A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
- A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
- A participant in a cadetship.
Noun (2) capitalized: Cadet
Cadet (plural Cadets)
- Alternative form of Kadet
Proper noun capitalized: Cadet
Cadet (plural Cadets)
- A surname from French.
cadet meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
cadet in Hindi
- कैडेट, कैडिट
cadet in Urdu
- کیڈٹ, کیڈیٹ
cadet in Bengali
- ক্যাডেট, কেডেট
cadet in Telugu
- క్యాడెట్, కేడెట్, కెడెట్
More languagesFewer languages
- cadet in Malayalam
- കേഡറ്റ്, ക്യാഡറ്റ്, കെഡറ്റ്
- cadet in Kannada
- ಕೆಡೆಟ್, ಕ್ಯಾಡೆಟ್, ಕೇಡೆಟ್
- cadet in Punjabi
- ਕੈਡਿਟ, ਕੈਡੇਟ
- cadet in Gujarati
- કેડેટ, કૈડેટ
- cadet in Odia
- କ୍ଯ଼ାଡେଟ୍, କ୍ଯ଼ାଡେଟ
- cadet in Tagalog
- kadete
- cadet in Arabic
- تِمْلِيذ عَسْكَرِيّ timlīḏ ʕaskariyy, تِمْلِيذَة عَسْكَرِيَّة
- cadet in Persian
- دانشجوی افسری dânešju-ye afsari
Examples of cadet in a sentence
- Wrapped in cadet grey jackets, snare drummers played in harmony with bass saxophonists.
- Cadets loathe SAMIs because they are the most stringent of all inspections.
- Cadet First Sergeant: 3 Chevrons, 3 rockers with a diamond inset.
Forms of cadet
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cadets |
| plural | Cadets |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Cadets |
Origin of cadet
Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634. Doublet of caddie, cadeau, cadel, capital, capitellum, and caudillo.
Words formed from cadet
Phrases with cadet
Words that rhyme with cadet
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- upset
- vignette
- whet
- sett
- cornet
- let
- manchette
- roulette
- yet
- cassette
- collarette
- forget
- pet
- banquette
- met
- mignonette
- musette
- octet
- reset
- unset
- abet
- beget
- brunette
- cuvette
- debt
- dinette
- dudette
- duet
- minuet
- navette
- planchette
- quartet
- regret
- silhouette
- vinaigrette
- aid and abet
- amourette
- barrette
- bavette
- bet
- brett
- briquette
- corvette
- couchette
- enucleate
- fossette
- grisette
- ket
Questions about cadet
- What does cadet mean?
- Cadet means a student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
- What is cadet in Hindi?
- Cadet in Hindi is कैडेट, कैडिट. See Cadet meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cadet?
- Cadet can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cadet?
- Cadet is pronounced /kəˈdɛt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cadet?
- The plural of cadet is cadets.
Words near cadet in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cadet (page history and authors); Cadet (page history and authors); cadet (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadet (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadet (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadet (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadet (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadet (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadet (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadet (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadet (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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