cadet
/kəˈdet/noun
1
- a young trainee in the armed services or police force（在武装部队或警察部门受训的）学员：
an air cadet.
一位空军学员。
1.1
- a boy or girl of 13-18 who undergoes voluntary army, navy, or air force training together with adventure training童子军成员（指接受志愿陆军、海军或空军冒险训练的13至18岁男孩或女孩）。
1.2
- NZ a young man learning sheep farming on a sheep station〈新西兰〉学牧羊业务的青年。
1.3
- Austral. a trainee or novice, especially a trainee journalist〈澳〉实习生; 新手（尤指实习记者）。
2
- formal or archaic a younger son or daughter〈正式或古〉次子; 幼子; 次女; 幼女。
2.1
- usu. as modifier a junior branch of a family非长子支族：
a cadet branch of the family.
家族的非长子支族。
派生词
cadetship
noun词源
early 17th cent. (in sense 2)： from French, from Gascon dialect capdet, a diminutive based on Latin caput 'head'. The notion 'little head' or 'inferior head' gave rise to that of 'younger, junior'.