cadet
/kəˈdɛt
/- They are police cadets, young kids who are going to become policemen.
- The scheme aims to provide young midshipmen and officer cadets starting at ADFA with a home away from home.
- Old soldiers from an array of regiments rubbed shoulders with young cadets as Bobby's coffin was carried through a guard of honour.
- The cadets undergo rigorous training in sailing, boat pulling and ship modelling.
- The group - which includes army cadets, brownies, and members of Voluntary Action Orkney - were invited meet the Queen, who is touring the country to mark her Golden Jubilee.
- We would do stories and do subbing and page makeup, so probably we learnt more than the fellows did as a cadet on the newspaper.
- We at this publication, we have almost 3,000 journalists, and 100 of them nationally are cadets.
- In the seventeenth century, the enforced celibacy of daughters and cadets already caused by the dowry inflation was further exacerbated by primogeniture and the triumph of the patrilineal family.
- A cadet of the family of the Earls of Lincoln, he espoused, along with many other scions of noble houses, the royal side in the civil war.
- The man, probably a cadet of the family, held a small estate in Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire.
- He was born on 18 May 1872 into a famous family, a cadet branch of the Dukes of Bedford.
- Secondly, it assumes coat armour to be hereditary in the male lines of a family, with differences to distinguish cadet branches.
- She was born on March 6, 1903, Tokyo, the eldest daughter of the Prince who headed one of the eleven cadet branches of the Imperial Family.
Derivatives
cadetship
/ noun ...- The fact that student newspapers cannot possibly compete with the resources of even the smaller independents makes the increasingly rare mentoring schemes, such as cadetships, all the more crucial.
- Applications submitted for cadetships for this year are up 50% and there has been a similar boost in interest in the naval service recruitment campaign.
- The pair were among 11 young people who were given the opportunity to do cadetships with Northland councils under the regional cadets programme.
Origin
Early 17th century (in 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'.
cad from late 18th century:
This is a dated term to describe a man who behaves dishonourably towards a woman, and appears to have arisen at the universities as a colloquial insult for a ‘man of low, vulgar manners’. It may have originated at Oxford in a contemptuous application to townsmen in the ‘town-and-gown’ rivalry. Cad, however, once referred to any passenger picked up by the driver of a horse-drawn coach for his personal profit. It is an abbreviation of Scottish caddie or its more standard form cadet. This term for a younger son comes from French Gascon dialect capdet, ‘little head’ hence ‘junior’ from Latin caput ‘head’.