cadetn.1
/kəˈdɛt/, U.S. /kəˈdɛt/ 1.
a. A younger son or brother.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > son > [noun] > younger son
cadet1610
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > brother > [noun] > younger brother
little brotherOE
cadet1610
brotherkin1827
kid brother1895
kiddy brother1963
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 463 From a younger brother or cadet of this house.
1671 J. Crowne Juliana Ep. Ded. Leave that as a thread-bare portion to the Cadets [printed Cadels].
a1726 J. Vanbrugh False Friend i. i I am a cadet, and by consequence not rich.
1745 J. Swift Ode to Sir W. Temple in Misc. X. 202 Poor we Cadets of Heav'n,..Take up at best with Lumber.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 210 Spiritual preferments being turned into means of maintenance for cadets or bastards of the royal house.
b. A younger branch of a family; a member of a younger branch.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun] > branch > younger branch
cadet1690
sideline1868
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun] > branch > younger branch > member of
cadet1690
1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. ix. §25 A Cadet, or Sister's Son, must have the Preference.
1726 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 238 I suppose his family was a cadet of your Lordship's family.
c. The youngest son.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > son > [noun] > youngest son
cadet1646
Benjamin1913
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 348 Joseph was the youngest of twelve, and David the eleventh sonne, and but the caddet of Jesse.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. v. 25 The cadet of a family.
2.
a. A gentleman who entered the army without a commission, to learn the military profession and find a career for himself (as was regularly done by the younger sons of the French nobility before the Revolution).
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > gentleman cadet
caddie1634
cadet1651
cadeea1689
1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 7 This may be one reason why she connives at so many Courtisans for the use of the Cadett-gentlemen.
1652 J. Evelyn State of France 85 The Cadets and yonger Brothers, minding for the most part no greater preferments, then what they cut out with their Sword.]
1691 London Gaz. No. 2719/2 The Elector of Saxony..adds a Company of Cadets.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Crew, Cadet, or Cadee, a Gentleman that Bears Arms in hopes of a Commission.
1704 D. Defoe Hymn to Victory lxx. 7 She serves Cadet and Voluntier.
b. A junior in the East India Company's service. See also caddee n., caddie n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > apprentice or learner > cadet in East India Company
cadet1768
1768 T. Simes Mil. Medley (ed. 2) A cadet serves without pay.
a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) i. 9 Go out cadets and writers in the Company's service.
1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master i. 10 His kit's pack'd up, and off he's set, To try his fortune—a cadet.
3.
a. A student in a military or naval college.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > student cadet
cadet1775
plebe1833
pleb1838
beast1871
snooker1872
yearling1885
1775 H. Swinburne Trav. Spain xliv The royal apartments are now occupied by a college of young gentlemen cadets, educated at the king's expence.
1788 Ld. Auckland Diary in Corr. (1861) II. 91 An establishment of one hundred young cadets for the army.
1833 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 159 Watch Sandhurst too, its debts and its Cadets.
1860 C. Dickens Let. 14 Sept. (1997) IX. 309 Sydney has just passed his examination as a Naval Cadet.
b. A boy in an ordinary school who receives military training with or without a view to entering the army. Also attributive, as cadet corps n. a company of schoolboys who receive such training.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > schoolboy cadet
cadet1873
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > training corps
cadet corps1901
Officers Training Corps1907
OTC1909
1873 Programme of Rev. at Charterhouse School 6 Aug. The young gentlemen (or Charterhouse Cadets) will be drawn up in Line at Open Order on the Cricket Ground.
1901 Public School Mag. Mar. 215 The Cadet Corps paraded in front of the school and stood ‘at rest’ while the band played ‘The Land o' the Leal’.
1901 W. H. Daniel Mil. Forces of Crown 114 Every public school [in New Zealand] has its cadet corps.
1957 Times 3 Dec. 12/3 Cadet corps in Birmingham schools came under fire from many members of the city education committee to-day.
4. New Zealand. A young man learning sheep-farming on a sheep-station.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-farmer > learner
cadet1842
1842 R. G. Jameson N.Z., S. Aust. & New S. Wales xxiv. 337 We [are] in want of a college for colonial cadets.
1862 E. R. Chudleigh Diary 21 Mar. (1950) i. 29 There were four Cadets learning sheepfarming.
1898 H. B. Vogel Maori Maid xix. 147 A cadet is a young man, generally from England, who is paying a run-holder so much a year for the honour and privilege of working for him.
1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs ii. 23 Reginald Wade managed for the Chamberlains, and at one time had no fewer than ten cadets on the station.
Derivatives
caˈdeting n. (also ca'detting)
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1898 H. B. Vogel Maori Maid xix. 148 Otherwise cadetting..is a swindle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
Cadetn.2
/kəˈdɛt/, U.S. /kəˈdɛt/ In Russian politics: a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party. This party was formed in 1905 by a fusion of the group favouring autonomy for Poland and a federal constitution for the Russian empire with the (so-called) Independence Party formed by political exiles at Paris in 1903.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Russian politics > [noun] > members of other parties
negator1888
socialist revolutionary1905
Cadet1906
social revolutionary1918
1906 Daily Chron. 22 May 7/5 The ‘Cadets’ (Constitutional Democrats)..have decided..to wait until the agrarian question comes on for discussion.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. 2/1 The more brilliant Zemstvo Liberals, who did so much to found the Cadet (or Liberal) Party.
1918 E. J. Dillon Eclipse of Russia 10 The Bolsheviks at once outbid the Cadets.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Jan. 14/3 The Kadets must properly be described as radicals.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 31/4 The Cadets advanced the claim..to a sovereign and democratically elected legislature.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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