cadetship

American  

[kuh-det-ship] / kəˈdɛt ʃɪp /

noun

cadetships plural

1. the position, status, or tenure of a cadet, such as an army or navy cadet, a trainee in a business or profession, or, especially historically, the youngest son in a family.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cadetships
  plural

Example Sentences

It was suggested that, with his education and the social position which he had enjoyed, a cadetship at West Point would be53 more suited to him than the place of a private at Fortress Monroe.

From The Home Life of Poe by Weiss, Susan Archer

But Mark had afterward beaten Benny at the West Point examination, where cheating was impossible, and had thus secured the long coveted cadetship.

From On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration by Sinclair, Upton

"So they seek to rob me of my cadetship by this—this——" He stopped then, unable to express his feelings.

From On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration by Sinclair, Upton

He was intended for the Church, and spent a year at Oxford; but showed no clerical leanings, and found a more congenial profession when he obtained a cadetship in the Indian Army in 1842.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

Of course that got him dead stuck on himself, and then he goes and wins a cadetship here and thinks he can run the earth.

From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Sinclair, Upton