cadet
/kəˈdɛt/ noun B2- 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. (See also the heraldic term cadency.) · a cadet branch of the family
- A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
Plural cadets
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He was indeed a scion of one of the very oldest families in the kingdom, though his branch was a cadet one which had separated from the northern Musgraves some time in the sixteenth century, and had established itself in western Sussex, where the Manor House of Hurlstone is perhaps the oldest inhabited building in the county.
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