alumnus vs cadet

alumnus

noun
  • A male graduate. 

  • A student of any gender. 

  • A male pupil or student. 

  • A graduate of any gender. 

cadet

noun
  • A participant in a cadetship. 

  • Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.) 

  • A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would. 

  • A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station. 

  • A student at a military school who is training to be an officer. 

How often have the words alumnus and cadet occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )