cadet

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kəˈdɛt/    美 /kəˈdɛt/

英文释义

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

词形变化

cadets plural

词汇关系

衍生词
air cadet cadet blue cadet branch cadetcy cadet gray cadet grey cadet house officer cadet space cadet
相关词
cadette

词源

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.
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