cadet

noun

1. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
2. A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.

   “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.”

3. (in-compounds)Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)

   “a cadet branch of the family”

4. (US, archaic, 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.
6. (Australia)A participant in a cadetship.

name

1. A surname from French.