cadet

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

• Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum ("small head"). Attested in English from 1634.
• caddy, caudillo, and capitellum.