• (RP, GA) IPA: /kəˈdɛt/

cadet (plural cadets)

1. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
2. (largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224 ↗, page 114 ↗:

     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.

3. (in compounds, chiefly, in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)

   a cadet branch of the family

4. (archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruin#Verb|ruining girls to put them in brothels.
5. (NZ, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station#Noun|station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.

• cadette

• French: cadet
• German: Kadett, Offiziersanwärter
• Italian: cadetto, allievo ufficiale
• Portuguese: cadete
• Russian: курса́нт

• French: puîné
• German: jüngerer Bruder, jüngerer Sohn
• Italian: cadetto

1. Surname