Veteran

Noun

 * 1) A person with long experience of a particular activity.
 * 2) A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service.

Derived terms

 * Veterans Day

Adjective

 * 1) Having had long experience, practice, or service.
 * 2) Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.

Adjectives for Veteran
shoeless; surviving; wary; old; experienced; seasoned; war-worn; gallant; right-minded; decrepit; battered; stalwart; invalided; grimvisaged; hardy; callous.

Thesaurus
Father Time, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, blase, campaigner, centenarian, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, dotard, elder, experienced, expert, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, graybeard, knowing, master, mature, matured, nonagenarian, not born yesterday, octogenarian, old, old campaigner, old chap, old codger, old dog, old duffer, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old hand, old man, old party, old pro, old salt, old sea dog, old soldier, old-time, old-timer, older, oldster, pantaloon, past master, patriarch, practical, practiced, presbyter, ripe, ripened, sagacious, salt, seasoned, seasoned veteran, senior citizen, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, shellback, skilled, sophisticated, the quiet-voiced elders, tried, tried and true, trouper, venerable sir, versed, vet, war-horse, warhorse, wise, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

Etymology
From veteranus:.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 经验丰富的人
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: veteraan
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:


 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: obsitos
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 老兵
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: veteraan, oud-strijder
 * Finnish: sotaveteraani, veteraani
 * Galician:


 * Greek: ,
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Adjective

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 经验丰富的
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ervaren


 * Galician:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: veteran-, erfaren


 * Danish: veteran
 * Dutch: veteraan
 * Galician:


 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: veteran-

Anagrams

 * aventre, Neretva, Trevena

Noun

 * 1) veteran

Etymology
From veteranus:, from vetus:.

Derived terms

 * krigsveteran
 * veteranbane
 * veteranbil
 * veteranfly
 * veteranlokomotiv

Noun

 * 1) veteran

Noun

 * 1) a veteran; a former member of armed forces
 * 2) a veteran, a person with long experience

Derived terms

 * veteranbil