cadets

Noun

cadet (plural cadets)

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.
   • 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
3. (in-compounds) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
   • a cadet branch of the family
4. (US, archaic, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
5. (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
6. (Australia) A participant in a cadetship.

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