Meanings
plural Kadets · alternative Cadet
- historicalA member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of the Russian Empire.
“No, the Duma did approve the program, but against the Kadet vote.[…]”
1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 1331 more example
Her closest analogue in early-twentieth-century Russia would be the Constitutional Democrats, Kadets for short, the party of the liberal bourgeoisie. The Kadets often formed political alliances with the Mensheviks, and both were represented in the provisional government that Lenin and the Bolsheviks overthrew […].
2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker
Origin
- Russianкаде́т
- EnglishKadet
Borrowed from Russian каде́т (kadét), from к.-д. (k.-d.), an abbreviation of the party name.
More words from Russian
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Kadet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kadet
“Kadet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kadet. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kadet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kadet.
Source: Kadet on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.