plural cadets
1
a
: a younger brother or son
b
: youngest son
c
: a younger branch of a family or a member of it
2
a
: a person in training for a military or naval commission
especially
: a student in a service academy
b
: a student at a police academy : a person who is in training to become a police officer
During his swearing-in speech last August, the 54-year-old head cop pointed out that he still wears the same size uniform that he wore when he was a cadet at the Police Academy 34 years ago.—
Bernard C. Parks
Bernard C. Parks3
slang
: pimp
Examples of cadet in a Sentence
the hooker claims she turned all her dough in to her cadet last night
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If the Army wasn’t sure how to run the Academy, neither was the government—in 1811, the Secretary of War ordered most of the cadets away for service elsewhere in the Army, effectively shutting it down for a year and a half.
—Ryan Shaw / Made By History, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
Some open to all Coast Guard cadets include the Asian Pacific American Council, Women’s Leadership Council, Hillel, Compañeros, International Cadet Council, Tribal Council and Diversity Peer Educators.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 1 Feb. 2025
The child opened the front door carrying the armed weapon to a cadet who came to serve a subpoena at the property on Inn Road on Saturday, Jan. 25, the Battle Creek Police Department stated in a news release.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
For the cadets and midshipmen on the field, a career playing professional football is unlikely.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
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Ryan Shaw / Made By History, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
Some open to all Coast Guard cadets include the Asian Pacific American Council, Women’s Leadership Council, Hillel, Compañeros, International Cadet Council, Tribal Council and Diversity Peer Educators.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 1 Feb. 2025
The child opened the front door carrying the armed weapon to a cadet who came to serve a subpoena at the property on Inn Road on Saturday, Jan. 25, the Battle Creek Police Department stated in a news release.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
For the cadets and midshipmen on the field, a career playing professional football is unlikely.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Cadet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cadet. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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