cadet

Definitions

• A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
• (largely) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
• (in compounds) Junior. See also the heraldic term cadency.
• (archaic) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
• (NZ) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.