veteran
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French vétéran, from Latin veterānus.
Inflected forms:
form: veterans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person with long experience of a particular activity.
pos: noun
examples: The company's new hires were nervous, but the veterans were self-assured because, as one summarized it, "this isn't our first rodeo."
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
gloss: A person with long experience of a particular activity.
pos: noun
examples: We honor veterans and senior citizens with a ten percent discount.
For 55-year-old U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park, this was the hardest moment of his life. […] Park's story reflects both the challenges of life after combat and the perils that noncitizen veterans face if caught in the legal system — realities made harsher amid the Trump administration's push for record deportations.
gloss: A group, animal, etc. with long experience of a particular activity.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Their mules were clearly veterans. They seemed to know what to do even better than the teenage farmhand who was driving the team.
Most of the cars which we call "veterans" today were on view at the Motor Show of 1911.
The label has often collaborated with other designers, like Australian shoemaker Teva and American woolwear veteran Pendleton.
gloss: Having had long experience, practice, or service.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veteran diplomatists and courtiers.
Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
“That was in Casco,” his wife contradicted immediately. She spoke in the unmistakable tones of a veteran contradictor.
gloss: Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: VA
VFW
inveterate
Derived words: veteran car
Veterans Day
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: ветеран
roman: veteran
lang: Catalan
word: veterà
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 經驗豐富的人 /经验丰富的人
roman: jīngyàn fēngfù de rén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 老手
roman: lǎoshǒu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 老將 /老将
roman: lǎojiàng
lang: Danish
word: veteran
lang: Dutch
word: veteraan
lang: Dutch
word: oudgediende
lang: Finnish
word: veteraani
lang: Finnish
word: konkari
lang: French
word: vétéran
lang: Galician
word: vedraño
lang: Georgian
word: ვეტერანი
roman: veṭerani
lang: German
word: Veteran
lang: Greek
word: βετεράνος
roman: veterános
lang: Greek
word: παλαίμαχος
roman: palaímachos
lang: Hebrew
word: וָתִיק
roman: vatíq
lang: Hungarian
word: obsitos
lang: Ido
word: veterano
lang: Irish
word: ársa
lang: Italian
word: veterano
lang: Japanese
word: ベテラン
roman: beteran
lang: Korean
word: 베테랑
roman: beterang
lang: Persian
word: کهنهکار
roman: kohne-kâr
lang: Persian
word: کارکشته
roman: kâr-košte
lang: Polish
word: weteran
lang: Polish
word: weteranka
lang: Portuguese
word: veterano
lang: Russian
word: ветера́н
roman: veterán
lang: Spanish
word: veterano
lang: Spanish
word: lobo de mar
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: stonfutu
lang: Swahili
word: mkale
lang: Swedish
word: veteran
lang: Yakut
word: бэтэрээн
roman: betereen