Veteran Synonyms and Antonyms

vĕtər-ən, vĕtrən
Skilled or knowledgeable through long practice
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. seasoned
  2. experienced
  3. versed
  4. exercised
  5. skilled
  6. old
  7. hardened
  8. practiced
  9. weathered
  10. inured
  11. steady
  12. venerable
Antonyms:
  1. green
  2. inexperienced
  3. amateur
An experienced soldier
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. vet
  2. ex-soldier
  3. seasoned campaigner
  4. ex-service man
  5. reenlisted man
  6. old-soldier
  7. war horse
  8. ex-G.I
  9. ex-serviceman

Words Related to Veteran

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. ability
  2. knowledge
  3. stalwart
  4. battle-hardened
  5. fighter-pilot
  6. champion

Veteran Sentence Examples

  • Aleixo de Menezes, a veteran who had served under Albuquerque.

  • Napoleon was at the head of a veteran army of Frenchmen, who worshipped their leader and were willing to die for France if necessity demanded.

  • Hardenburgh, a veteran of the war, and for some years was known as Hardenburgh's Corners.

  • It was left to the veteran explorer, Sturt, to achieve the arduous enterprise of penetrating from the Darling northward to the very centre of the continent.

  • During the following year his father, Colonel Richard Taylor, a veteran of the War of Independence, migrated to Kentucky, settling near Louisville, and thereafter played an important part in the wars and politics of his adopted state.

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