Kadet

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See also: kadet and kädet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian каде́т (kadét), from к.-д. (k.-d.), an abbreviation of the party name. Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capital, capitellum, and caudillo.

Proper noun

Kadet (plural Kadets)

  1. (historical) A member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of the Russian Empire.
    • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 133:
      “No, the Duma did approve the program, but against the Kadet vote. 
    • 2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker:
      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 .

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