cadetship

American  

[kuh-det-ship] / kəˈdɛt ʃɪp /

noun

plural

cadetships

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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Example Sentences

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

Will, slight and fair, home for the holidays from Lexington and, by virtue of his cadetship in the Virginia Military Institute, an authority on most things, had a movement of impatience.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

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

After a cadetship at West Point and a brief term of military service, he lived for eight years, 1837-45, on a Mississippi plantation, in joint ownership and control with an older brother.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring

The pin was a present from Landor; to whom three years later, when the boy had obtained his cadetship through the kindness of Miss Coutts, Dickens wrote again.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John