cadet
noun/kəˈdet/
/kəˈdet/
- a young person who is training to become an officer in the police or armed forces
- army cadets
- The military academy trains up to 2 000 officer cadets each year.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- army
- military
- naval
- …
- train
- march
- train
- graduate
- …
- corps
Word Originearly 17th cent. (originally in the sense of a younger son or daughter): 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’.
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