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VETERAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service
Synonyms:
old-timer; old hand; old stager; oldtimer; stager; veteran; warhorse
Classified under:
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 2
Meaning:
A person who has served in the armed forces
Synonyms:
ex-serviceman; vet; veteran
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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:
A serviceman who has seen considerable active service
Example:
the veterans laughed at the new recruits
Synonyms:
veteran; veteran soldier
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rendered competent through trial and experience
Example:
a veteran officer
Synonyms:
seasoned; veteran
Classified under:
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:
From all sides the free companions had trooped in, until not less than twelve thousand of these veteran troops were cantoned along the frontiers of Navarre.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The name of Champion Harrison came very early into the discussion, and Fox, who had a high idea of Crab Wilson’s powers, was of opinion that my uncle’s only chance lay in the veteran taking the field again.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In it Sir Claude Latour, the Gascon lieutenant of the White Company, assured him that there remained in his keeping enough to fit out a hundred archers and twenty men-at-arms, which, joined to the three hundred veteran companions already in France, would make a force which any leader might be proud to command.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And each showed up the other’s points on account of the extreme contrast between them: the long, loose-limbed, deer-footed youngster, and the square-set, rugged veteran with his trunk like the stump of an oak.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then came two-score more archers, ten more men-at-arms, and finally a rear guard of twenty bowmen, with big John towering in the front rank and the veteran Aylward marching by the side, his battered harness and faded surcoat in strange contrast with the snow-white jupons and shining brigandines of his companions.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One could not walk the Kent coast without seeing the beacons heaped up to tell the country of the enemy’s landing, and if the sun were shining on the uplands near Boulogne, one might catch the flash of its gleam upon the bayonets of manoeuvring veterans.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The fierce Sir Hugh Calverley, with his yellow mane, and the rugged Sir Robert Knolles, with their war-hardened and veteran companies of English bowmen, headed the long column; while behind them came the turbulent bands of the Bastard of Breteuil, Nandon de Bagerant, one-eyed Camus, Black Ortingo, La Nuit and others whose very names seem to smack of hard hands and ruthless deeds.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the mean time they formed up in a line of sentinels, presenting under their row of white hats every type of fighting face, from the fresh boyish countenances of Tom Belcher, Jones, and the other younger recruits, to the scarred and mutilated visages of the veteran bruisers.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the other side were the veteran Captal de Buch and the brawny Olivier de Clisson, with the free companion Sir Perducas d'Albret, the valiant Lord of Mucident, and Sigismond von Altenstadt, of the Teutonic Order.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was much laughter and clapping of glasses upon the table at the conclusion of old Buckhorse’s story, and I saw the Prince of Wales hand something to the waiter, who brought it round and slipped it into the skinny hand of the veteran, who spat upon it before thrusting it into his pocket.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
