A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
Used in a Sentence
cadets
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cadets.
Editorial note
The Cadets assist with various law enforcement work but they never actually carry out the actual enforcement.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of cadets gathered in one view.
A surname from French.
(Australia) A participant in a cadetship.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for cadets.
noun
A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
noun
A surname from French.
noun
(Australia) A participant in a cadetship.
noun
(New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
Example sentences
The Cadets assist with various law enforcement work but they never actually carry out the actual enforcement.
It sounds like this is a 'Kobiashi Maru' Test, which is a no win situation that Starfleet gives to it's cadets.
I was in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets when I was younger and took the Survival Instructor Course.
Doors have to be open all the time during daylight hours unless changing or sleeping and there cadets on duty monitoring the areas.
At West Point, I was one of ten cadets in my class of one thousand to make the parachute team.
The heroes in both books behave immorally by any sane standard, in terms of what West Point Cadets are being taught in their other classes.
On the other hand, I have often screamed at cadets for bad execution, and in general they do better the next time.
Before the battle of Midway the Japanese navy wargamed the battle and cadets (playing the US) did to the Japanese exactly what the actual US navy did.
However, it had become increasingly hard to convince some cadets that America had to respect the rule of law and human rights, even when terrorists did not.
I'm certain there are positions for cadets with high IQ's.
It's like the Japanese planning for Midway all over again (where naval cadets did exactly what the US did and annihilated the Japanese forces so they changed the rules and ran the simulation again).
Finnegan, who is a lawyer, has for a number of years taught a course on the laws of war to West Point seniors—cadets who would soon be commanders in the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Quote examples
The physicist you link really begs the question when he forbids "space cadets".
He said, “On many occasions I have praised flight cadets for clean execution of some aerobatic maneuver, and in general when they try it again, they do worse.
We call TagTime "stochastic self-sampling" or "time-tracking for space cadets".
"tick tocking" was what we called it in our sea cadets corp.
Proper noun examples
Doesn't seem to have done my son any harm - he's growing into a well balanced kid who goes to the Air Cadets, is popular, and does well at school.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use cadets in a sentence?
The Cadets assist with various law enforcement work but they never actually carry out the actual enforcement.
What does cadets mean?
A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
What part of speech is cadets?
cadets is commonly used as noun.