My uncle is a veteran of the Vietnam War.
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Veteran
//ˈvɛ.tə.ɹən//
Synonyms for "veteran" (105 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (52)
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3 entriesRelated terms
3 entriescapable of
3 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
2 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
13 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
116 translations across 43 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مُحَارِب قَدِيم noun (old soldier)
Armenian
1 entries- վետերան noun (old soldier)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- qazi noun (old soldier)
- veteran noun (old soldier)
Belarusian
2 entries- ветэра́н noun (old soldier)
- вэтэра́н noun (old soldier)
Bulgarian
4 entries- ветерански adj (related to former members of armed forces)
- опитен adj (with long experience)
- ветера́н noun (old soldier)
- ветеран noun (person with long experience)
Catalan
2 entries- veterà noun (person with long experience)
- veterà noun (old soldier)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 经验丰富的 adj (with long experience)
- 經驗豐富的人 /经验丰富的人 noun (person with long experience)
- 老兵 noun (old soldier)
- 老將 /老将 noun (person with long experience)
Czech
1 entries- veterán noun (old soldier)
Danish
4 entries- erfaren adj (with long experience)
- veteran adj (related to former members of armed forces)
- veteran noun (person with long experience)
- veteran noun (old soldier)
Dutch
4 entries- ervaren adj (with long experience)
- veteranen adj (related to former members of armed forces)
- oud-strijder noun (old soldier)
- oudgediende noun (person with long experience)
Finnish
4 entries- konkari noun (person with long experience)
- sotaveteraani noun (old soldier)
- veteraani noun (person with long experience)
- veteraani noun (old soldier)
French
4 entries- ancien combattant noun (old soldier)
- ancien soldat noun (old soldier)
- vétéran noun (person with long experience)
- vétéran noun (old soldier)
Galician
4 entries- veterano adj (with long experience)
- veterano adj (related to former members of armed forces)
- vedraño noun (person with long experience)
- veterano noun (old soldier)
Georgian
4 entries- გამორძმედილი adj (with long experience)
- გამოცდილი adj (with long experience)
- ვეტერანი adj (with long experience)
- ვეტერანი noun (person with long experience)
German
3 entries- Kriegsveteran noun (old soldier)
- Veteran noun (person with long experience)
- Veteran noun (old soldier)
Greek
4 entries- βετεράνος noun (person with long experience)
- βετεράνος noun (old soldier)
- παλαίμαχος noun (person with long experience)
- παλαίμαχος noun (old soldier)
Hebrew
1 entries- וָתִיק noun (person with long experience)
Hungarian
1 entries- obsitos noun (person with long experience)
Ido
1 entries- veterano noun (person with long experience)
Irish
3 entries- ársa adj (with long experience)
- ársa noun (person with long experience)
- ársa noun (old soldier)
Italian
3 entries- reduce noun (old soldier)
- veterano noun (person with long experience)
- veterano noun (old soldier)
Japanese
3 entries- ベテラン noun (person with long experience)
- 老兵 noun (old soldier)
- 退役軍人 noun (old soldier)
Korean
4 entries- 노병 noun (old soldier)
- 로병 noun (old soldier)
- 베테랑 noun (person with long experience)
- 퇴역 군인 noun (old soldier)
Latin
1 entries- ēmeritus noun (old soldier)
Macedonian
1 entries- ветеран noun (old soldier)
Maranao
1 entries- minangolod noun (old soldier)
Māori
2 entries- ika a Whiro noun (old soldier)
- pāraeroa noun (old soldier)
Navajo
3 entries- naazbaaʼí noun (old soldier)
- siláołtsooí nilį́į́ ńtʼę́ʼę́ę noun (old soldier)
- siláołtsooídę́ę́ʼ nádzá noun (old soldier)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اسكی adj (with long experience)
Persian
4 entries- کارکشته adj (with long experience)
- کهنهکار adj (with long experience)
- کارکشته noun (person with long experience)
- کهنهسرباز noun (old soldier)
Polish
4 entries- weteran noun (person with long experience)
- weteran noun (old soldier)
- weteranka noun (person with long experience)
- weteranka noun (old soldier)
Portuguese
4 entries- veterano adj (with long experience)
- veterano adj (related to former members of armed forces)
- veterano noun (person with long experience)
- veterano noun (old soldier)
Russian
2 entries- ветера́н noun (person with long experience)
- ветера́н noun (old soldier)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- vetèrān noun (old soldier)
- ветѐра̄н noun (old soldier)
Slovak
1 entries- veterán noun (old soldier)
Slovene
1 entries- veteran noun (old soldier)
Spanish
4 entries- aguerrido adj (with long experience)
- retirado adj (related to former members of armed forces)
- veterano adj (with long experience)
- lobo de mar noun (person with long experience)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- stonfutu noun (person with long experience)
Swahili
1 entries- mkale noun (person with long experience)
Swedish
4 entries- erfaren adj (with long experience)
- veteran adj (with long experience)
- veteran adj (related to former members of armed forces)
- veteran noun (person with long experience)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ветера́н noun (old soldier)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cựu binh noun (old soldier)
- lính cũ noun (old soldier)
Yakut
2 entries- бэтэрээн noun (person with long experience)
- бэтэрээн noun (old soldier)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
A strong veteran, having trained for tens of years, can fall to a weakling in a moment of laxness. That's what the martial arts world is.
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In Tatoeba, you gotta always listen to veteran members. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Source: tatoeba (451582)
Suffering from terminal cancer, he was thrown out of a certain veteran hospital in New York three times because he adamantly rejected blood transfusions.
Source: tatoeba (509515)
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