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A student at a military school who is training to be an officer. / (largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.

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cadet

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Source Word

cadet

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kəˈdɛt/

Noun

in genealogy in-compounds US archaic slang New-Zealand historical Australia

A student at a military school who is training to be an officer. / (largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.

Japanese Meaning

軍学校で士官になるために訓練を受ける学生（士官候補生） / （歴史的用法）家族の中で、長男ではなく相続権が限定される若い息子

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The cadet stood at attention as the instructor reviewed his drill performance.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その士官候補生は、教官が行進訓練の出来を確認している間、気をつけの姿勢で立っていた。

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A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.

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(largely historical) 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.

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