cadet /kəˈdɛt/ noun6 •A student at a military school who is training to be an officer. •(Australia) A participant in a cadetship. •(New-Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station. •A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.Bertram is certainly well off for a cadet of even a Baronet's family. By the time he is four or five and twenty he will have seven hundred a year, and nothing to do for it. — 1814 •[in compounds] Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.) •(slang, no longer used) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels. formsCadets · cadets