Usually means: Trainee in military or police.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. cadet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cadet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cadet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cadet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cadet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cadet, cadet: Wordnik
  7. cadet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cadet, cadet: Wiktionary
  9. cadet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cadet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cadet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cadet, cadet: Dictionary.com
  13. cadet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cadet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cadet (album), Cadet (band), Cadet (dinghy), Cadet (disambiguation), Cadet (genealogy), Cadet (rapper), Cadet, The Cadet (newspaper): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cadet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cadet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cadet: Rhymezone
  19. cadet, cadet(te) (m/f), cadet (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cadet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Cadet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. cadet: Free Dictionary
  23. cadet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cadet: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. cadet: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CADET: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. CADET: CCI Computer
  3. cadet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. CADET: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. cadet: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cadet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cadet, cadet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See cadets as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
noun:  (chiefly history) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
noun:  (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
noun:  (archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
noun:  (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
noun:  (Australia) A participant in a cadetship.
noun:  A surname from French.

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