cadet
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Is cadet a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (chiefly history) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.Examples: "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."
2. (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)Examples: "a cadet branch of the family"in-compounds
3. (archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.USarchaicslang
4. (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.New-Zealandhistorical
5. (Australia) A participant in a cadetship.Australia
Definition source: Wiktionary