different between cadet vs soldier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634.

Doublet of caddy, caudillo, and capitellum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /k??d?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Hyphenation: ca?det

Noun

cadet (plural cadets)

1. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
2. (largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
3. (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)

4. (archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
5. (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.

Derived terms

• air cadet
• space cadet

Related terms

• cadette

Translations

References

Further reading

• cadet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• acted, ectad

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Doublet of chapiteau and cadeau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.d?/

Adjective

cadet (feminine singular cadette, masculine plural cadets, feminine plural cadettes)

1. (family) youngest

Noun

cadet m (plural cadets)

1. cadet, student officer
2. junior sportsperson, young player
3. a younger sibling

Derived terms

• cadet des soucis de

Descendants

• ? Czech: kadet
• ? English: cadet
  • ? Cebuano: kadete (with Spanish cadete)
• ? Dutch: kadee, kadet
• ? German: Kadett
  • ? Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: ?????
    • Latin: kadet
  • ? Vilamovian: kadet
• ? Finnish: kadetti
• ? Indonesian: kadet
• ? Italian: cadetto
• ? Polish: kadet
• ? Portuguese: cadete
• ? Russian: ????? (kadet)
  • ? English: Kadet
• ? Scots: caddie
  • ? English: caddie, caddy, cad
• ? Spanish: cadete
  • ? Cebuano: kadete (with English cadet)

See also

• benjamin

Further reading

• “cadet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cédât

Latin

Verb

cadet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of cad?

Romanian

Etymology

From French cadet

Noun

cadet m (plural cade?i)

1. cadet

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• soldior, soldiour, souldier, souldior, souldiour, (all obsolete), soljer

Etymology

From Middle English soudeour, borrowed from Old French soudier or soudeour (“mercenary”), from Medieval Latin soldarius (“soldier (one having pay)”), from Late Latin solidus, a type of coin. Displaced native Old English cempa.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?l?j?(r), s?l?j?(r), IPA^(key): /?s??ld???/, /?s?ld???/
• (General American) enPR: s?l?j?r, IPA^(key): /?so?ld???/
• Rhymes: -??ld???(?), -?ld???(?)

Noun

soldier (plural soldiers)

1. A member of an army, of any rank.
   • I am a soldier and unapt to weep.

   • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

   • 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal

     Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Aghanistan, is not the first soldier to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.

2. A private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.

   • It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier.

3. A guardsman.
4. A member of the Salvation Army.
5. A low-ranking member of the mafia who engages in physical conflict.
6. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
7. A term of approbation for a young boy.
8. Someone who fights or toils well.
9. The red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).
10. One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
11. (slang, dated) A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red).

Synonyms

• (member of an army): grunt, sweat, old sweat, Tommy

Derived terms

• dead soldier
• soldierlike, soldierly
• water soldier (Stratiotes aloides)

Translations

Verb

soldier (third-person singular simple present soldiers, present participle soldiering, simple past and past participle soldiered)

1. (intransitive) To continue steadfast; to keep striving.
2. (intransitive) To serve as a soldier.
3. (intransitive) To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
4. (transitive, slang) To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.

Usage notes

Originally from the way that conscripts may approach following orders. Usage less prevalent in the era of all-volunteer militaries.

Synonyms

• (work at slowest rate): dog it, goldbrick

Derived terms

• soldierly

Translations

See also

• soldier on
• toy soldier, plastic soldier
• soldier ant, soldier bee
• soldier of fortune
• construction soldier

Further reading

• soldier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Soldier (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• soldier on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• soldier on Wikiquote.Wikiquote

Anagrams

• Delrios, serolid, solider