Word Finder - cadet

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

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A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.

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(in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)

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a cadet branch of the family

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A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.

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A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.

The cadet was Rostov.

The boys are organized in cadet corps.

The eldest of the cadet branches of the ducal house has its origin in William (c. 1510-1573), eldest son of the victor of Flodden by his second marriage.

Cadet Mironov ducked every time a ball flew past.

Pop. (1905), 3735 It has a palace built about 1630 and now converted into a cadet school, a gymnasium and a biological station.

Following the army cadets training on the fire station, the fire cadets have been invited to visit the army cadet unit.

A German or Austrian count may be a wealthy noble of princely rank, a member of the Prussian or Austrian Upper House, or he may be the penniless cadet of a family of no great rank or antiquity.

A former cadet leader in Regina confirmed that Bass and Ryan met while in the cadet corps in the late 1980s.

Next term will see the introduction of a junior driving scheme, with the aim of teaching every cadet to drive.

Cadet contingents from the nation's 400 Sea cadet contingents from the nation's 400 Sea Cadet Units joined the crew of The Ark for the historic voyage.

I recently heard a story about a young police cadet sitting his final exams at Hendon Police College.

The cadet units were all disbanded during the Second World War but re-formed again in 1945.

We managed to find a spot next to the air cadet 's van to set up camp for the rest of the day.

They do not wear a Naval type uniform but instead wear a sweatshirt and baseball cap embellished with the Sea Cadet Corps badge.

Our own fatherland 's yellow Cadet papers have taken of course, the same road.

The Mayor's Cadet was also inaugurated at last night's meeting.

He was now assigned to the ulan regiment number 1 and become an instructor at the cavalry cadet institute at MÃhrisch-Weißkirchen.

For once the Honda Cadet final was fairly processional with Sean Babington leading from lights to flag with Nick Evans in his wheel tracks.

He is helped by young cadet Poe, who reveals an agile mind and a troubled psyche.

So again, a few days' observations on the top of Mont Blanc (4810 metres) by le Cadet (26) in August and September 1902, showed only a single period, with maximum between 3 and 4 P. M., and minimum about 3 A.M.

On Mont Blanc, Le Cadet (43) Found Q Largest From I To 3 P.M., The Value At Either Of These Hours Being More Than Double That At I I A.M.

Its environs are charming, and to the north of it, on an eminence, rise the fine ruins of the castle of Greifenstein, built by the German king Henry I., and from 1275 to 1583 the seat of a cadet branch of the counts of Schwarzburg.

Amadeus did homage, in 1405, to the bishop for those of the newly acquired lands which he held from the bishop. But, after his power had been strengthened by his elevation (1417) by the emperor to the rank of a duke, and by his succession to the principality of Piedmont (1418, long held by a cadet branch of his house), Amadeus tried to purchase Geneva from its bishop, John of Pierre-Seise or Rochetaillee (1418-1422).

You see yours is already an officer in the Guards, while my Nicholas is going as a cadet.

And he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet.

It seemed to Rostov that Bogdanich was only pretending not to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet's courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it seemed to him that Bogdanich rode so near in order to show him his courage.

To feel the warm thrill of confusion That space cadet glow.

Fun space cadet theme chest of drawers inscribed with " Rockets ", " Aliens " and " Lasers ".

After recovering his health he joined Austrian military service as a cadet in ulan regiment number 10 on the 18th of May 1861.

Her next role was in the Disney Channel movie Cadet Kelly.

In "The First Duty", McNeill played Nick Lucarno, a Starfleet Academy cadet who was involved in a shuttlecraft accident that resulted in deaths, attempted to cover up his involvement...

The following are samples from a number of days' results, given in le Cadet's book.

On the extinction (1218) of that dynasty both castle and town passed to the counts of Kyburg, and from them, with the rest of their possessions, in 1272 by marriage to the cadet line of the Habsburgs.

The latter being without a son, the succession devolved upon Charles Albert, of the cadet line of the princes of Carignano, who were descended from Thomas, youngest son of Charles Emmanuel I.

From 1531 to 1710 it was the seat of the cadet line of the counts of Mansfeld-Eisleben.

From 1451 to 1522 the see was almost continuously held by a cadet of the house of Savoy, which thus treated it as a kind of appange.

He entered the colonial army of Spain as a cadet in 1810, and served as one of the Creole supporters of the Spanish government till 1821.

A cadet branch of the Baliol family was descended from Ingelram, or Engelram, a son of the younger Bernard de Baliol.

He entered his father's company as a cadet about 1794, and became an ensign (or second lieutenant) in 1799 and first lieutenant in the same year.

The Virginia Military Institute was established in March 1839, when its cadet corps supplanted the company of soldiers maintained by the state to garrison the Western Arsenal at Lexington.

It may be remarked that Gregory's own family was a cadet branch of the Arsacid kin which had occupied the thrones of Persia, Bactria, Armenia and Georgia.

Their French name was de Cornets, and this cadet branch had taken the name of Groot on the marriage of Hugo's great-grandfather with a Dutch heiress.

He was educated entirely in Bulgaria, first by tutors and later at the cadet and officers' schools, serving subsequently as A.D.C. to the King and to various generals.

For military science there are the academies of war (Kriegsakademien) in Berlin and Munich, a naval academy in Kid, and various cadet and non-commissioned officers schools.

The officers are recruited either from the Cadet Corps at Berlin or from amongst those men, of sufficient social standing, who join the ranks as avantageurs with a view to obtaining commissions.

Given in 1002 to Otto, duke of Franconia, it was inherited by the cadet line of Spires, the head of which, the emperor Henry III., gave it to the see of Spires in 1095.

In addition, after making careful inquiry through various commissions, he reformed the systems of education and police, laid down a comprehensive scheme of irrigation, improved the leave rules and the excessive report-writing of the civil service, encouraged the native princes by the formation of the Imperial Cadet Corps and introduced many other reforms. His term of office was also notable for the coronation durbar at Delhi in January 1903, the expedition to Lhasa in 1904, which first unveiled that forbidden city to European gaze, and the partition of Bengal in 1905.

Having belonged to the extensive duchy of Saxony it was the capital of the duchy of Brunswick-Luneburg from 1235 to 1369; later it belonged to one or other of the branches of the family of Brunswick, being involved in the quarrels, and giving its name to cadet lines, of this house.

From 1311 to 1675 Brieg was the capital of an independent line of dukes, a cadet branch of the Polish dukes of Lower Silesia, by one of whom the castle was built in 1341.

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt is the cadet branch of the house of Schwarzburg, descended from Albrecht VII.