What part of speech is veteran?

Veteran can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. veteran is a noun, singular of veterans.

Inflections

Noun

What does veteran mean?

Definitions

Adjective

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

Noun

veteran - a person who has served in the armed forces
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; "the veterans laughed at the new recruits"

Examples of veteran

#   Sentence  
1. noun A veteran of India's military intervention in the Jaffna peninsula to help implement the 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord - which ambitiously provided for the disarming of the formidable LTTE - Kalkat said the new defense deal would essentially be a reiteration of the older one minus its military commitment.
2. noun Blue Planet is a weekly series examining the relationship of humans to the environment, by veteran environmental reporter Dan Whipple.
3. noun My uncle is a veteran of the Vietnam War.
4. noun 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.
5. noun In Tatoeba, you gotta always listen to veteran members. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
6. noun Suffering from terminal cancer, he was thrown out of a certain veteran hospital in New York three times because he adamantly rejected blood transfusions.
7. noun Tom is a veteran.
8. noun They congratulated the veteran on his promotion.
9. noun The war veteran is a double amputee.
10. noun Tom is a Navy veteran.
11. noun Tom is a veteran now.
12. noun I'm not a veteran.
13. noun Tom is a Vietnam veteran.
14. noun Tom is a World War II veteran.
15. noun Tom's father was a World War II veteran.
Sentence  
noun
A veteran of India's military intervention in the Jaffna peninsula to help implement the 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord - which ambitiously provided for the disarming of the formidable LTTE - Kalkat said the new defense deal would essentially be a reiteration of the older one minus its military commitment.
Blue Planet is a weekly series examining the relationship of humans to the environment, by veteran environmental reporter Dan Whipple.
My uncle is a veteran of the Vietnam War.
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.
In Tatoeba, you gotta always listen to veteran members. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Suffering from terminal cancer, he was thrown out of a certain veteran hospital in New York three times because he adamantly rejected blood transfusions.
Tom is a veteran.
They congratulated the veteran on his promotion.
The war veteran is a double amputee.
Tom is a Navy veteran.
Tom is a veteran now.
I'm not a veteran.
Tom is a Vietnam veteran.
Tom is a World War II veteran.
Tom's father was a World War II veteran.

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