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Kadet

Kadet proper noun: a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of the Russian Empire.

Proper noun

Kadet (plural Kadets)

  1. (historical) A member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of the Russian Empire.
    • “No, the Duma did approve the program, but against the Kadet vote.[…]”1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 133
    • Her closest analogue in early-twentieth-century Russia would be the Constitutional Democrats, Kadets for short, the party of the liberal bourgeoisie. The Kadets often formed political alliances with the Mensheviks, and both were represented in the provisional government that Lenin and the...2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker

Forms of Kadet

pluralKadets
alternative formCadet

Origin of Kadet

Borrowed from Russian каде́т (kadét), from к.-д. (k.-d.), an abbreviation of the party name.

Questions about Kadet

What does Kadet mean?
Kadet means a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of the Russian Empire.
What part of speech is Kadet?
Kadet is a proper noun.

Words near Kadet in the dictionary

  1. Kadens
  2. Kader
  3. Kaders
  4. kades
  5. Kadesh
  6. Kadet
  7. Kadets
  8. Kadevaarehaa
  9. Kadhaffi
  10. Kadhafi
  11. kadhai

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