cadet

Meaning of cadet

noun
  1. a young trainee in the armed services or police force.
    an air cadet
  2. a younger son or daughter.
    a cadet of the family of the Earls of Rosse

early 17th century (in cadet (sense 2)): from French, from Gascon dialect capdet, a diminutive based on Latin caput ‘head’. The notion ‘little head’ or ‘inferior head’ gave rise to that of ‘younger, junior’.

Information about cadet

Hyphenation of cadet

cadet

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • cadet is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

cadet synonyms

Meaning plebe:

plebe

Translation of cadet

Anagrams of cadet

acted, ectad

Words that rhyme with cadet

adet, Cadet, Muscadet, muscadet

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