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VETERAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does veteran mean?
• VETERAN (noun)
The noun VETERAN has 3 senses:
1. a serviceman who has seen considerable active service
2. a person who has served in the armed forces
3. an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service
Familiarity information: VETERAN used as a noun is uncommon.
• VETERAN (adjective)
The adjective VETERAN has 1 sense:
1. rendered competent through trial and experience
Familiarity information: VETERAN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A serviceman who has seen considerable active service
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
veteran; veteran soldier
Context example:
the veterans laughed at the new recruits
Hypernyms ("veteran" is a kind of...):
man; military man; military personnel; serviceman (someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force)
Derivation:
veteran (rendered competent through trial and experience)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who has served in the armed forces
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
ex-serviceman; vet; veteran
Hypernyms ("veteran" is a kind of...):
man; military man; military personnel; serviceman (someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "veteran"):
Legionnaire (a member of the American Legion)
Holonyms ("veteran" is a member of...):
American Legion (the largest organization of United States war veterans)
Veterans of Foreign Wars; VFW (an organization of United States war veterans)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
old-timer; old hand; old stager; oldtimer; stager; veteran; warhorse
Hypernyms ("veteran" is a kind of...):
expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)
Derivation:
veteran (rendered competent through trial and experience)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rendered competent through trial and experience
Synonyms:
seasoned; veteran
Context example:
a veteran officer
Similar:
experienced; experient (having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation)
Derivation:
veteran (an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service)
veteran (a serviceman who has seen considerable active service)
Context examples
A hoarse roar of laughter from all the company answered it, and flushed faces craned over each other to catch a glimpse of the veteran.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Researchers from Columbia, Harvard and Boston Universities analyzed a subset of data collected from 2,280 male veterans from the greater Boston area who were given tests to determine their lung function.
(Aspirin Could Cut Air Pollution Harms, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Carefully and sagaciously the veteran knight chose out his men from the swarm of volunteers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Summerlee, the veteran Professor of Comparative Anatomy, rose among the audience, a tall, thin, bitter man, with the withered aspect of a theologian.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"And we urgently need to find answers for not just football players, but veterans and other individuals exposed to head trauma."
(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)
The injury from which the unfortunate veteran was suffering was found to be a jagged cut some two inches long at the back part of his head, which had evidently been caused by a violent blow from a blunt weapon.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An ultrasensitive test has been developed that detects a corrupted protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition found in athletes, military veterans, and others with a history of repetitive brain trauma.
(New test detects protein associated with Alzheimer’s and CTE, National Institutes of Health)
With such examples before them the wives of the English captains had become as warlike as their mates, and ordered their castles in their absence with the prudence and discipline of veteran seneschals.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was clear when the two men faced each other that Wilson had made himself up for mischief, and meant to force the fighting and maintain the lead which he had gained, but that grey gleam was not quenched yet in the veteran’s eyes, and still the same smile played over his grim face.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was commanded up to Monday night by James Barclay, a gallant veteran, who started as a full private, was raised to commissioned rank for his bravery at the time of the Mutiny, and so lived to command the regiment in which he had once carried a musket.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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