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Definition: Cadet |
CadetNoun1. A military trainee (as at a military academy). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cadet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | CADET Computer Aided Design Experimental Translator. [Sammet 1969, p. 683]. (1994-11-29). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Literature | Cadet Younger branches of noble families are called cadets, because their armorial shields are marked with a difference called a cadency. Cadet is a student at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, or in one of her Majesty's training ships, the Excellent and the Britannia. From these places they are sent (after passing certain examinations) into the army as ensigns or second lieutenants, and into the navy as midshipmen. (French, cadet, junior member of a family.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CADET | English | Computerised analysis of data on external trade | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: CadetSynonym: plebe (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Levy, draught; Landwehr, Landsturm; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies. |
Infant | Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle. |
Master | Marshal, field marshal, marechal; general, generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general, major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion, skipper, lieutenant, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp, brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet, subaltern, noncommissioned officer, warrant officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cadet |
| English words defined with "cadet": Cadet midshipman, cadetship ♦ space cadet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cadet": 63630 ♦ CADET, DECK, College Colours ♦ IBM 1620. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cadet": Cad. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cadet" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (cadet, junior, younger brother, younger sister), Latin (abate, be slain, cease, decay, die, drop, end, fall, plummet, sink, topple), Romanian (cadet). |
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Screenplays | You had impressive moves for a cadet. (Police Academy 3: Back in Training; writing credit: Gene Quintano) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Air Cadet (1951) Cadet Holiday (1951) Space Cadet Tom Corbett (1950) Cadet Rousselle (1947) A Cadet Cavalry Charge (1900) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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![]() | [Dorothy McGuire in "Reward Unlimited" looking at a copy of a magazine with a cadet nurse on the cover] / National Archives.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C. : Cadet Nurse adjusting traction.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | [Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and a Cadet Nurse].Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | [The new Cadet Nurse Corps uniform is modeled at the White House for Mrs. Winston Churchill] / Office of War Information.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | A Cadet Nurse in her grey and scarlet outdoor uniform.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Two Cadet Nurses in uniform ...Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Cadet Nurse : The Girl With A Future / Distributed by OWI.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Enlist in a Proud Profession... : Join The U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps / Distributed by OWI for the Federal Security Agency.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Cadet nurses, Adelphi College, Garden City, New York.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | El Salvador | In May Air Force flight school cadets Carlos Mauricio Melara and Cesar Humberto Dorat beat Erick Mauricio Pena Carmona, a junior cadet, in front of his classmates, allegedly for showing them a lack of respect. (references) |
Guatemala | In May the authorities arrested two instructors of the military academy, Captain Hugo Rigoberto Orozco Pu and Lieutenant Angel Boanerges Carrera Sandoval, in connection with the November 1999 death of cadet Danilo Cardona Mejia, who died after being required to perform excessively rigorous physical exercise. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cadet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.36% of the time. "Cadet" is used about 132 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.36% | 114 | 30,294 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.36% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 132 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "cadet" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cadet | Last name | 1,000 | 14,106 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Cadet, MO |
Expressions using "cadet": air cadet ♦ army cadet ♦ cadet corps ♦ Cadet midshipman ♦ cadet school ♦ military cadet ♦ naval cadet ♦ officer cadet ♦ pilot cadet ♦ space cadet. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "cadet": paymaster-cadet, space-cadet. | |
Containing "cadet": space-cadet keyboard. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cub cadet | 1,827 |
cadet kelly | 263 |
the cadet | 256 |
cadet pinball space | 129 |
cadet command | 121 |
sea cadet | 112 |
air cadet | 71 |
space cadet | 67 |
international cub cadet | 59 |
cadet club | 46 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cadet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kursant i shkollës ushtarake, kadet. (various references) | |
Arabic | تلميذ عسكري, طالب في كلية حربية, أخ أصغر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | юнкер (junker), сводник (bully, decoy, go between, pander, pimp, procurer), курсант, кадет, най-малкият син, по-малък син, по-малък брат. (various references) | |
Chinese | 军 学". (various references) | |
Czech | mladší syn nebo bratr, kadet. (various references) | |
Danish | officers-aspirant (apprentice officer), kadet. (various references) | |
Dutch | leerling (apprentice, apprentice officer, learner, ships boy, trainee), adelborst (middy, midshipsman, naval cadet). (various references) | |
Esperanto | midŝipmano (middy, midshipsman, naval cadet). (various references) | |
Farsi | دانشجوی دانشکده افسری . (various references) | |
Finnish | kadetti. (various references) | |
French | cadet (caddie), traitement automatisé des statistiques du commerce extérieur, TRACE, eleve officier, débutant, aspirant (candidate), élève officier, élève militaire. (various references) | |
German | kadett (apprentice officer). (various references) | |
Greek | δόκιμος (apprentice). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צוער (assistant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kadét, kisebbik fiú, hadapród, gyakornok (apprentice, assistant lecturer, junior clerk, trainee, volunteer). (various references) | |
Indonesian | taruna. (various references) | |
Italian | cadetto (midshipman). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 曹司 , 候補" . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうし (books, copybook, copy-book, creation, fiction, founding, initiating, mutual affection or love, notebook, ruffian, small shrine, Song poetry, storybook, swaggerer, young man in his prime), "うほせい. (various references) | |
Manx | ynseydagh (didactic, disciple, instructive, learner, pupil, scholar), mac saa, doltey (adopt, adopted child, foster, initiate, initiation, protege, pupil, ward). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adetcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cadete, professor-estagiário, filho mais novo. (various references) | |
Romanian | cadet, mezin, fiul cel mai mic, începãtor (a, abecedarian, apprentice, beginner, beginning, fledgeling, novice, raw hand, suckling, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro). (various references) | |
Russian | кадет. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pitomac, kadet, akademac. (various references) | |
Spanish | cadete (apprentice, footboy, officeboy, trainee). (various references) | |
Swedish | yngre son, kadett. (various references) | |
Thai | นักเรียนทหาร. (various references) | |
Turkish | polis akademisi öğrencisi, oğul (a cluster of bees, boy, cion, cluster, descendant, junior, son, swarm, swarm of bees), harp okulu öğrencisi (officer cadet), erkek kardeş (brother), askeri öğrenci (officer cadet), aday (applicant, aspirant, candidate, contestant, entrant, nominee, postulant, remainderman). (various references) | |
Ukranian | юнкер (younker), сутенер (bully, gigolo, ponce), курсант війскового училища, кадет, молодший син, молодший брат, звідник (go between, pander, pimp, procurer, ruffian), представник молодшої лінії. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | BasileuV qrasuV empeseitai eiV kaka aggeloV de pistoV rusetai auton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Nuntius impii cadet in malum legatus fidelis sanitas |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The messager of the vnpitous shal falle in to euel; the feithful sent is helthe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful embassador is health. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A man taking false news is a cause of trouble, but he who gives news rightly makes things well. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 17 |
| Bulgarian | Лошият пратеник изпада в зло, А верният посланик дава здраве. |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang usa ka dautan nga sinugo mahulog ngadto sa kadaut; Apan ang usa ka matinumanon nga sinaligan maoy makaayo. |
| Chinese | 奸 惡 的 使 者 、 必 陷 在 禍 患 裡 . 信 的 使 臣 、 乃 醫 人 的 良 藥 。 |
| Croatian | Zao glasnik zapada u zlo, a vjeran poslanik donosi spasenje. |
| Danish | Gudløs Budbringer går det galt, troværdigt Bud bringer Lægedom. |
| Dutch | Een goddeloze bode zal in het kwaad vallen; maar een trouw gezant is medicijn. |
| Finnish | Jumalaton sanansaattaja suistuu turmioon, mutta uskollinen lähetti on kuin lääke. |
| French | Un envoyé méchant tombe dans le malheur, Mais un messager fidèle apporte la guérison. |
| German | Ein gottloser Bote bringt Unglück; aber ein treuer Bote ist heilsam. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Yon move komisyonè ap mete moun nan ka. Men, yon komisyonè serye ap bay moun kè poze. |
| Hungarian | Az istentelen követ bajba esik; a hívséges követ pedig gyógyulás. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Utusan yang tak becus mendatangkan celaka; utusan yang dapat dipercaya menjamin keberhasilan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Utusan yang jahat itu mendatangkan celaka, tetapi seorang pesuruhan yang setiawan itu seumpama obat adanya. |
| Italian | Un cattivo messaggero causa sciagure, un inviato fedele apporta salute. |
| Korean | 훈 계 를 버 리 " 자 에 게 " 궁 핍 과 수 욕 이 이 르 거 니 와 경 계 를 지 키 " 자 " 존 영 을 얻 느 니 라 |
| Maori | ¶ Ka hinga te karere kino ki te kino; ko te karere pono ia, ano he rongoa. |
| Norwegian | Et ugudelig sendebud faller i ulykke, men et trofast bud er lægedom. |
| Portuguese | O mensageiro perverso faz cair no mal; mas o embaixador fiel traz saúde. |
| Rumanian | Un sol rqu cade kn nenorocire, dar un sol credincios aduce tqmqduire. - |
| Russian | иХ"ПК ПУПМ П Б"БЕФ Ч 'Е"Х, Б ЧЕТОЩК ПУМБООЙЛ--У БУЕОЙЕ. |
| Spanish | El mensajero impío caerá en el mal, pero el enviado fiel es como medicina. |
| Swedish | En ogudaktig budbärare störtar i olycka, men ett tillförlitligt sändebud är en läkedom. >Ords. 25,13. |
| Thai | ผู้สื่อสารที่ชั่วร้ายหลงไปในความร้าย แต่ทูตที่สัตย์ซื่อนำการรักษามาให้ |
| Ukrainian | ¶ Безбожний посол у нещастя впаде, а вірний посол немов лік. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cadet": cadets, cadetship, cadetships. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cadet": muscadet. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cadet": muscadets. (additional references) | |
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"Cadet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adet, Caade, cabet, Cada, Cadden, cadea, cadec, cadeo, Cadex, cado, Cadoc, caduc, caduto, Cadwa, caedo, caget, cajet, camet, candet, candit, capet, Casdec, Caset, catet, cathet, cavet, cawet, cayent, cayet, Cdev, cdt, cedent, cedit, cindet, clade, Codot, cudit, dacet, icazet, jadet, Kadett, Kaydet, madeth. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cadet" (pronounced kude"t) |
| 4 | -u d e" t | vedette. |
| 3 | -d e" t | debt. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: acted. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-t" | |
-1 letter: aced, cade, cate, dace, date, tace. | |
-2 letters: ace, act, ate, cad, cat, eat, eta, tad, tae, tea, ted. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, at, de, ed, et, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-t" | |
+1 letter: advect, cadent, cadets, canted, carted, catted, coated, crated, decant, detach, redact, tacked, talced, traced. | |
+2 letters: advects, batched, bracted, candent, castled, catered, cathead, cathode, caudate, cerated, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, citadel, cleated, coacted, coapted, coasted, cordate, crafted, created, curated, decants, dejecta, deltaic, descant, detract, dialect, dictate, edacity, edictal, educate, enacted, exacted, faceted, fracted, hatched, latched, located, matched, pandect, patched, reacted, redacts, redcoat, scanted, scarted, scathed, scatted, stacked, tackled, tacnode, talcked, thacked, tracked, traduce, tranced, unacted, vacated, watched, yachted. | |
+3 letters: abdicate, abducent, abducted, abductee, acaudate, accented, accepted, accident, accosted, accredit, accreted, acerated, acetamid, acetated, acridest, actinide, actuated, acylated, addicted, adducent, adducted, adjacent, aduncate, advected, advocate, aeroduct, affected, anecdota, anecdote, antecede, anticked, aqueduct, arcuated, articled, attached, attacked, autocade, baccated, backdate, cacheted, cadaster, cadastre, cantered, cantoned, captured, carpeted, cartoned, caseated, casketed, catenoid, catheads, cathedra, cathodes, caudated, caudates, caveated, cavitied, cavorted, ceratoid, chaunted, chelated, chordate, ciliated, citadels, citrated, clodpate, coattend, collated, combated, cratered, cremated, crenated, ctenidia, cuneated, cuspated, deathcup, decadent, decanted, decanter, decimate, decorate, decretal, dedicate, defecate, delicate, democrat, descants, despatch, detached, detacher, detaches, detracts, diabetic, diacetyl, dialects, dicentra, dictated, dictates, distance, ecaudate, educated, educates, educator, endocast, facetted, factored, falcated, furcated, impacted, incanted, incudate, indicate, jacketed, lacertid, lactated, lanceted, latticed, maledict, medicate, misacted, muscadet, nictated, outacted, outdance, outfaced, outpaced, outraced, packeted, pandects, pedantic, picrated, placated, plicated, preacted, racketed, radicate, raticide, readdict, recanted, recrated, redacted, redactor, redcoats, retacked, retraced, sacheted, scandent, snatched, spicated, stanched, starched, stockade, sulcated, tacnodes, tendance, terraced, tetracid, tetradic, thatched, thwacked, timecard, tracheid, trachled, traduced, traducer, traduces, uncoated, uncrated, underact, untacked, untraced, vaticide, wauchted. | |
+4 letters: abdicated, abdicates, abductees, abreacted, accidents, accounted, accoutred, accredits, acerbated, acetamide, acetamids, acetified, acidities, acidulate, acidulent, acierated, acquitted, actinides, activated, activized, addictive, adductive, adipocyte, adjective, advecting, advection, advective, advocated, advocates, aeroducts, afflicted, afterdeck, allocated, andesitic, anecdotal, anecdotes, anecdotic, anteceded, antecedes, aqueducts, ascendant, ascendent, astricted, asyndetic, attracted, auctioned, autocades, backdated, backdates, bacteroid, bracketed, bratticed, cadasters, cadastres, cadential, cadetship, candidate, candidest, candlelit, candlenut, canulated, captained, captioned, carinated, cartooned, cartridge, castrated, cataloged, catalyzed, catcalled, catenated, catenoids, cathected, cathedrae, cathedral, cathedras, catnapped, cautioned, cavitated, chapleted, chaptered, charioted, chartered, chastened, chastised, chattered, chordates, clattered, claughted, clodpates, coadapted, coatdress, coattends, cocreated, coenacted, coequated, cogitated, cohabited, cohobated, colocated, combatted, compacted, comparted, conflated, contacted, contained, copulated, cordately, corelated, coronated, corotated, costarred, creodonta, croustade, cumulated, curtailed, curtained, cuspidate, dacoities, deathcups, decadents, decaliter, decameter, decanters, decanting, decathlon, deciduate, decimated, decimates, declarant, decollate, decorated, decorates, decorator, decretals, decussate, dedicated, dedicatee, dedicates, dedicator, defalcate, defecated, defecates, deistical, delicates, demarcate, democrats, deprecate, descanted, desecrate, desiccant, desiccate, detachers, detaching, detracted, detractor, diabetics, diacetyls, diaconate, diaeretic, dialectal, dialectic, diametric, diathetic, dicentras, dietician, disaffect, discanted, dislocate, distanced, distances, doctorate, duplicate, ecdysiast, edacities, educating, education, educative, educators, elucidate, emaciated, enchanted, endocasts, entranced, eradicate, eructated, escalated, escheated, evacuated, excavated, execrated, extracted, fasciated, fecundate, fractured, glaciated, hatcheled, headcount, headstock, identical, incubated, indicated, indicates, infarcted, infracted, instanced, invocated, jaculated, lacerated, lacertids, macerated, maculated, maledicts, matricide, medicated, medicates, mendacity, mendicant, mistraced, motorcade, muscadets, mustached, nucleated, obcordate, octahedra, osculated, ostracode, outdanced, outdances, overacted, patricide, peculated, pediatric, playacted, practiced, practised, predacity, predicate, radicated, radicates, ratcheted, raticides, readdicts, recharted, recreated, redacting, redaction, redactors, reductant, reductase, reeducate, reenacted, refracted, relocated, rematched, repatched, restacked, retackled, retracked, retracted, scattered, scratched, sidetrack, sonicated, speciated, spectated, staunched, stockaded, stockades, stomached, syndicate, tackified, tendances, tentacled, tetracids, thickhead, tictacked, timecards, tomcatted, traceried, tracheids, trackside, traducers, trajected, transcend, transduce, trauchled, truncated, tunicated, ulcerated, uncharted, uncreated, underacts, undercoat, unhatched, unlatched, unmatched, unscathed, unstacked, urticated, vaticides, vesicated, victualed, vindicate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 64 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -.. . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01100100 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a d e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0064 0065 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767707186 |
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