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US
/ˈvɛtɝən, ˈvɛtɹən/
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[ UK /vˈɛtəɹən/ ]
[ UK /vˈɛtəɹən/ ]
NOUN
- a person who has served in the armed forces
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a serviceman who has seen considerable active service
the veterans laughed at the new recruits - an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service
ADJECTIVE
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rendered competent through trial and experience
a seasoned traveler
a veteran officer
veteran steadiness
How To Use veteran In A Sentence
- Whatever you think of Strandlof and the months he masqueraded as a brain-injured veteran, the simple truth two months after his web of lies came apart is that public disgrace seems to have changed him little. Heroes or Villains?
- Even among the veterans, there is no consensus: is it an economic area or something much greater with supra-national ambition? Times, Sunday Times
- Gulf War veterans fighting to prove hundreds of former servicemen have been crippled and killed by a mysterious syndrome caused by their time in the conflict have been dealt a massive blow - their own solicitors say the case is unprovable.
- This World War II romance film makes Amanda feel all warm and cozy, as only stories of convicts and shell-shocked veterans can.
- Wilson also dispensed with the ceremoniousness hamstringing Boston's other lyceums, such as their practice of staging elaborate quasi-military "Banner Marches," which they sometimes even performed before military veterans. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School
- We all see the writing on the wall," said Rick Goodwin, a China trade veteran of 22 years, whose company links foreign buyers with Chinese suppliers.
- Veterans must be treated fairly and expeditiously as they seek compensation for disability or illness.
- This has provoked anger among some Labour veterans who spent the Eighties in vicious battles with the impossibilist left to return the party to electability. Despite their hopes of a great revival, the left got left behind
- So maybe you'll get what we call a titty brim," said Tommy Bryant, a veteran north Florida bass and panfish guide, grinning. Spring Tactics for Big Bluegill from Field and Stream's John Merwin
- Philippe Noiret, the sagacious French veteran, plays the mentor Alfredo in this life story of Salvatore "Toto" Di Vitto, a director manque' depicted as a child by Salvatore Cascio.