midshipman
noun
mid·ship·man ˈmid-ˌship-mən 
ˌmid-ˈship-
: a person in training for a naval commission
especially : a student in a naval academy
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web On June 7, midshipman Taylor Connors, 24, of Pleasant View, Utah, died in Philadelphia, the Naval Academy said. 
Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 July 2022 Bird is the second midshipman with the Naval Academy to have died in less than two months. Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 July 2022 Moran served aboard the Ohio with a young midshipman named Chester Nimitz, who later became Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander in Chief of Pacific Ocean Areas during World War II. San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2022 In addition, the wife of an older midshipman confirmed his death to Radio Liberty, a U.S. government network based outside Russia. New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022 Westminster resident Tim Thomas organized the first Army-Navy football run in 1981 as a midshipman. Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 9 Dec. 2021 Second-year midshipman Kay Moore entered the Navy after high school as an enlisted sailor. Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021 Second Lieutenant Hanna Born, just three years old at the time of the attacks, graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2019; her younger sister Heather is a midshipman in the Naval Academy's class of 2023. Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2021 When his roommate at the Naval Academy said jokingly last year that Andrew Atwill was a homosexual, the midshipman told him to cut it out. Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021 See More
Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 July 2022 Bird is the second midshipman with the Naval Academy to have died in less than two months. Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 July 2022 Moran served aboard the Ohio with a young midshipman named Chester Nimitz, who later became Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander in Chief of Pacific Ocean Areas during World War II. San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2022 In addition, the wife of an older midshipman confirmed his death to Radio Liberty, a U.S. government network based outside Russia. New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022 Westminster resident Tim Thomas organized the first Army-Navy football run in 1981 as a midshipman. Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 9 Dec. 2021 Second-year midshipman Kay Moore entered the Navy after high school as an enlisted sailor. Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021 Second Lieutenant Hanna Born, just three years old at the time of the attacks, graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2019; her younger sister Heather is a midshipman in the Naval Academy's class of 2023. Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2021 When his roommate at the Naval Academy said jokingly last year that Andrew Atwill was a homosexual, the midshipman told him to cut it out. Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1662, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
midshipman
noun
mid·ship·man ˈmid-ˌship-mən
plural midshipmen
-mən
: a person who is training to become an officer in the navy