veterann.adj.

Brit.

/ˈvɛt(ə)rən/,

/ˈvɛt(ə)rn̩/, U.S.

/ˈvɛdərən/,

/ˈvɛtrən/

Forms: 1500s–1600s veterane, 1500s– veteran, 1600s ueteran, 1600s veterant, 1600s–1700s veterean.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin veterānus.

Etymology: < classical Latin veterānus (masculine noun) experienced or mature person, (adjective) mature, experienced, especially of troops < veter- , vetus old, having lived a long time, long-established, belonging to or existing in the past ( < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit vatsara , Mycenaean Greek we-to (ancient Greek ἔτος : compare etesian adj.), Albanian vit , all in sense ‘year’, and Old Church Slavonic vetŭxŭ , Lithuanian †vetušas , both in sense ‘old, ancient’) + -ānus -an suffix.Compare Middle French veteran , French vétéran (1520 as veterain ), Spanish veterano (15th cent.), Portuguese veterano (1582), Italian veterano (14th cent.), all found as both noun and adjective. With the form veterean perhaps compare -ean suffix. The form veterant shows excrescent t.

A. n.

a. A person with long experience in military service or warfare. Also in figurative contexts.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > veteran soldier

veteran?1504

man of service1553

campaigner1771

old moustache1828

warhorse1836

vet1848

Old Bill1915

old sweat1919

retread1941

grognard1959

?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. ff.iii^v Than spake the lady fayre dame charyte Welcome vertue the noble veteran.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xxviii. 131 The sturdy knight well named fortytude With the noble veterane syr consuetude.

1601 W. Fulbecke Hist. Coll. Continuall Factions 132 M. Varro captaine to a great number of Veteranes, did hold a forcelet.

1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Veterans, old soldiers.

1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician II. 248 Even Veterans, who had never kept Guard.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 3 June 65 A sound that will force the bravest Veteran to drop his weapon, and desert his rank.

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxiv. 25 Military governments, which were intended for the support of worn out veterans.

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. xix. 153 Veterans of early fields were there, Whose helmets press'd their hoary hair.

1837 W. Whewell tr. J. Kepler in Hist. Inductive Sci. I. v. iv. 422 Sending into the field a reserve of new physical reasonings on the rout and dispersion of the veterans.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico II. iii. ix. 68 Then came the Spanish infantry, who in a summer's campaign had acquired the discipline, and the weather-beaten aspect, of veterans.

1882 J. Rhŷs Celtic Brit. iii. 80 Ostorius establishes a strong colony of veterans at Camulodunon.

1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. iii. 298 She was beginning to read these things with the air of an old soldier listening to a fellow veteran only a year or two older than himself.

1951 L. Brackett in Startling Stories Mar. 37/2 The officers treated him with the affable contempt of the veteran for the amateur.

2012 CQ Federal Depart. & Agency Documents (Nexis) 11 Nov. The first step..involves offering transition assistance for veterans still in service.

b. An ex-member of the armed forces; a former serviceman or servicewoman (now chiefly North American). Also with of or modifying word: a person who served in the specified conflict, armed force, etc.war veteran: see the first element.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense A. 1a.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > ex-soldier or ex-serviceman

veteran1577

old soldier1640

war veteran1906

VFW1920

Old Bill1925

oudstryder1942

1577 J. Bishop Beautifull Blossomes x. f. 49 He was not able no not to pay the souldiers their wages, nor the Veteranes their rewards and pensions.

1607 Bp. J. King tr. St. Jerome in Serm. Sept. 40 I was once a souldiour, now a Veteran.

1669 J. Davies tr. Florus Rom. Hist iv. vii. 200 The distribution of the Lands which Caesar assign'd the Veteranes, as a reward for their service.

1760 J. Beattie in tr. Virgil 1st Pastoral in Orig. Poems & Transl. 89 Augustus, in order to reward the services of his Veterans,..distributed among them the lands that lay contiguous to Mantua.

1798 W. Dunlap Andre p. iv The Author has gone near to offend the veterans of the American army who were present on the first night.

1838 Southern Literary Messenger 4 796 When the revolutionary pension-law was enacted, a majority of the war-worn veterans had travelled..beyond the reach of human reward.

1874 Dundee Courier & Argus 7 Apr. Death has removed the second last representative of the old Peninsular and Waterloo veterans in Dundee.

1924 F. J. Haskin Amer. Govt. 401 In the wake of the World War there came the problem of the treatment..of the disabled veterans of that great conflict.

1982 Times 13 Dec. 3/6 (heading) Falklands veteran killed at 22.

1998 City Paper (Baltimore) 30 Sept. 18/3 An idea..to form a men's a cappella choir out of a group of formerly homeless veterans.

2007 Independent 11 Jan. 4/4 Already a veteran of two command tours in Iraq, he is also recognised as the US military's leading expert on fighting insurgencies.

2014 Providence Jrnl. 13 June 1 Luz is a well-known Iraq veteran... She..was deployed in October of 2006 to help run a combat support hospital in Mosul.

2. A person with long experience in a particular (non-military) position, field, or activity; any experienced or ageing person. Often with of; also with in.screen veteran: see the first element.

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the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > old and experienced person

veteran1565

old standard1588

old soaker1590

oldie1799

old-timer1860

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > familiarity with a thing > one who has long experience

veteran1565

old stager1570

old, ancient, or long stander1590

stager1664

old soldier1722

old hand1764

warhorse1836

1565 A. Nowell Reproufe Pref. sig. A4 In iesting, scoffing, mockinge, and railinge, he is suche a Veterane, and so olde a practicioner, that he doth plainely raigne, yea and triumphe too, in the schoole of scolding.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlii. 85 The Arrians for the credit of their faction take the eldest, the best experienced, the most warie and the longest practised Veterans they had amongst them.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ii. 34 A sturdy veteran in roguery.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. ii. ii. 163 The servants were all veterans, gorgeous in their liveries.

1826 Lancet 16 Dec. 351/2 The medico-obstetrical veteran of the North has described the same affection.

1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) ii. vi. 367 Miss Fanny..said the usual nothings with the skill of a veteran.

1915 Paper-maker & Brit. Paper Trade Jrnl. Mar. 300/2 Mr. Hans Bie,..who is one of the veterans of the paper-making industry, is about to retire.

1957 F. Kohner Gidget 29 Being a veteran of arguments around the breakfast table my instinct told me it was useless to scratch further.

1984 Times 3 Mar. 17/2 Classic mainstream jazz trumpet from a veteran of the Count Basie orchestra.

2013 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 July 22/1 At 51, Le Gallou was a veteran of thousands of base jumps.

3. An animal that has been used in a particular capacity for a long time; an experienced or ageing animal.

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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 22 The new backely [sc. South African ox] is then joined with one of the veterans of his own kind, from whom he learns his art.

1792 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (new ed.) iii. viii. 438 They start all at once, the horses having ranged themselves in regular Indian file, the veteran in the van, and the younger in the rear.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iii. 63 When the angler essays his skill upon the wily old veterans of the pond.

1883 Those Pretty St. George Girls 103 He [sc. Reynard] held his brush gallantly erect, but it was no use; the hounds were veterans,..and they were too keen to be easily put off.

1919 Outing Mar. 311/1 As an illustration of how regular living has done its part in maintaining the veteran on his championship throne, we might remark casually that Frank [sc. a racehorse] rode the fastest mile of his entire career in 1914.

1952 B. Catton Glory Road vi. 302 Lieutenant James Stewart..was on his horse amid his guns, facing always toward the enemy—partly because he was a brave man and partly because his horse was a veteran with certain fixed ideas about battle.

1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food xi. 337 The duck may be called the veteran of the henhouse, which might more properly be called the duckhouse, since poultry yards were first organized around that fowl.

1998 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) 20 Nov. d6 Three other St. Paul police dogs have been killed in the line of duty... Callahan, a three-year veteran of the department, was 6 years old.

4. An old or well-used thing; spec. (British) a veteran car (see sense B. 3b). Also with of a place of use, event, or other context.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > veteran or vintage

veteran1914

vintage car1979

1914 E. Wharton Let. 1 May (1988) 322 We managed to charter two crippled sea-chairs (veterans of the first Trans-Atlantics, probably).

1937 Times 20 Sept. 19/5 Definition of a veteran... The club's definition of a veteran car is one that was manufactured before 1905.

1948 Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Mar. 28/2 Tasmania's oldest apple-tree..is no more. Fierce gales and storms..early this year were too strong for the veteran.

1968 Woman's Own 28 Sept. 28/1 A veteran is a car built before 1905.

1982 C.Wheeler Hist. Sheep Stations N.Z. 41 (caption) The old wool wagon, veteran of many river crossings.

2015 Crawley News (Nexis) 4 Nov. 23 (headline) Veterans of the road roll into High Street.

B. adj. (chiefly and now only attributive)

1. Having long experience in military service or warfare; (of a military unit) consisting of experienced military personnel. Occasionally also: designating a former member of the armed forces.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [adjective] > veteran

veteran1548

aguerried1735

vet1889

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxiv They..appointed the veterane souldiour, and valiaunt Capitayn, Ihon lord Talbot, and erle of Shrewsburye to be chefetayn of the armye.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvi. 651/1 Veterant souldiers, most of which were of skill sufficient to be commanders themselues.

1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 170 The Veteran Souldiery of the United Provinces.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 55 The veterane Janizaries were all either slain or dead.

1734 J. Breval Hist. House of Nassau 70 An Army of 30,000 Veteran Spaniards.

1759 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Earl of Eglinton (1885) 316 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4575) XLIV. 1 So much has the present War drain'd them of their Veteran Troops.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xviii. 121 The loss of a veteran army, sufficient to defend the frontiers.

1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. x. 292 Here report said, that Adrian de Bubenberg, a veteran knight of Berne, commanded.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 460 His professional skill commanded the respect of veteran officers.

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 236 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing the flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball.

1908 J. Conrad Set of Six x. 51 She wore..the sword of poor Don Antonio de Leyva. This veteran Chilian officer..found his death at the hands of the Arauco Indians.

1940 Del Rio (Texas) News-Herald 26 Apr. 6/4 (headline) Veteran general leads British troops in Norway.

1972 D. Pope Great Gamble iii. 42 Their hostess..was a social dragon... She enjoyed having veteran admirals and captains at her mercy.

1998 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 17 June 9 The millionaire [receives] the same pension as the impoverished veteran serviceman or his widow.

2015 T. Anderson Straits of Hell (2016) xi. 119 He and his veteran squadrons would reap a heavy harvest against the incoming raid.

2. Having long experience in a particular (non-military) position, field, or activity.

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the world > people > person > old person > [adjective] > old and experienced

venerable?a1500

grey-haired1611

veteran1624

grand1845

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > skilled or experienced

oldOE

well-usedc1300

experientc1420

way-wisea1460

pertly1466

practica1522

perite1530

well-practised1539

well-experienced1541

practised1548

experienced1576

veteran1624

practical1632

well-seasoned1640

seasoneda1643

callent1656

versant1766

used1786

salted1864

roteda1901

shell-backed1930

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > accustomed, used, or wont > familiar with or experienced in anything

familiar1509

frequentative1575

experienced1576

beatena1593

frequent1609

veteran1624

seasoneda1643

hackneyed1749

1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 241 Not onely Mr. White, but veterane Papists themselues are perplexed in resoluing the mysteries thereof.

1652 E. Walsingham tr. E. de Refuge Arcana Aulica iii. 6 Princes..are so hedged in with the number of Peers, and train of Veterane Courtiers that a stranger can hardly thrust in amongst the throng that stand in his way.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A Veteran Counsellor has a Voice and Seat at Audiences.

1789 W. Belsham Ess. II. xl. 502 Did it never occur to this veteran politician that there are degrees of misconduct?

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 528 The veteran English author was not slow to reply.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 255 Godolphin had..early acquired all the flexibility and the self-possession of a veteran courtier.

1883 R. B. Smith Life Ld. Lawrence II. xxviii. 532 The veteran Viceroy walked round to the sacred spot.

1936 Nevada State Jrnl. 14 June 12/1 The pace car of this year's race, driven by Tommy Milton, veteran retired racing champion and now a Packard engineer, was a Packard One-twenty.

1968 J. M. White Nightclimber (1970) ix. 74 The veteran torero..had received a cornada in the groin..and died three hours later.

2014 S. Harvey Dear Thief (2015) 82 You play our old table like a veteran croupier, sweeping up the Solitaire hand when I come along and transforming it in seconds into a Poker hand.

a. Designating something that has existed for a long time; old, much used; of long standing; long-continued, well-established.

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the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > of long standing

longOE

oldOE

veterate?1541

long-rooted1562

of long standinga1568

old-standinga1627

veteran1648

long-running1651

long-standing1655

old-established1776

long-breathed1816

long-time1851

1648 T. Fairfax Displaying Life-Guards Colours 6 That we may have our Accompts as well veterane as new audited and Registred by the Commitee of the Army..and visible security given to us according to the Agreement.

1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 44 Our old bottels and veterane Wines..are sound, sweet, well-refined, and full of spirits.

1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iv. 208 The payment of Tithes was grown to be a Veteran and thorough settled Constitution of this Kingdom.

1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) i. 15 In art unschool'd; each veteran rule he priz'd.

1806 St. James's Chron. 18 Jan. The veteran car remains unmended. Indeed 'tis hardly worth repair, Unless, perhaps, for Smithfield Fair.

1823 T. Roughley Jamaica Planter's Guide iii. 151 I would never put the road cattle, intended for carrying the crop to the wharf, to any other kind of work, so much depending upon their veteran, steady efforts, when in need of them.

1833 H. W. Longfellow tr. J. Manrique Coplas 63 By great And veteran service to the state,..He stood..The proudest knight of chivalry.

1870 Dubuque (Iowa) Daily Herald 7 Sept. The fame of that old gun is sounded abroad and applications for its use are numerous: richly mounted and highly polished muskets or rifles are nothing alongside of the veteran weapon.

1892 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 16 Dec. 5/2 The veteran hunting boat, steamer Salem, will leave Sunday at 2 A.M.

1904 Boston Post 10 Aug. 8/3 (advt.) Reuter's Sterling Ale has never retreated from the field of quality. It is a veteran Ale well fit for veterans.

1992 1001 Images of Dogs i. 24 The Pyrenean Sheepdog..is the veteran breed of French sheepdogs.

2011 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 8 July 78 It was perfectly paired with another appetizer, one of the chef's veteran recipes.

b. British. Designating a style or model of motor vehicle made before a certain stipulated date, typically 1919 or (more strictly) 1905. Chiefly in veteran car, contrasted with vintage car n. at vintage n. 4b (cf. also classic car at classic adj. 7b). Hence: designating the oldest class of other products of manufacture (often coupled with vintage) .

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [adjective] > of specific age

veteran1931

1931 Scotsman 14 Nov. 9 (headline) Veteran car run.

1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England xiii. 222 A three-mile clatter in the veteran car—‘never can get the new car,’ explained Mr. Fielding.

1958 M. Kelly Christmas Egg iii. 107 An apartment..was devoted to the needs of those who..wished to play vintage and veteran records.

1959 Listener 29 Jan. 201/2 A veteran car is generally considered to be a pre-1917 model though a few extremely exclusive owners recognise only pre-1905 cars as qualifying for the title.

1961 J. Sheldon (title) Veteran and vintage motor cycles.

1965 L. Hunt (title) Veteran and vintage aircraft.

1980 Times 1 Nov. 14/2 Nineteen-thirty had seen the foundation of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain.

1992 M. Baren How it all Began 2/2 From 1953 to 1957 the company produced more construction kits, covering sections such as aircraft, historical ships, veteran cars,..and historical subjects.

1996 Adv. Driving Milestones Winter 15 The term ‘classic car’ generally refers to cars from the post-war era, as distinct from vintage and veteran.

4. Of an animal: that has been used in a particular capacity for a long time; experienced, ageing.

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the world > animals > [adjective] > period of animal's life

veteran1793

1793 St. James's Chron. 29 Oct. This meekness of spirit seems to run through the individual of every species exhibited, from the gallant Stallion to the veteran Bull.

1847 T. T. Stoddart Angler's Compan. 250 Give me..the rush of some veteran water-monarch, or the gambol..of a plump new-run grilse.

1870 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 23 Sept. He has twelve or fifteen full-blooded Durhams, all the progeny of Grand Turk, a veteran bull who is also on the ground.

1891 Weekly Sentinel & Wisconsin Farm Jrnl. 18 June 8/2 The veteran stallion at the Bradley farm is Milwaukee whose age is estimated at 30 to 35.

1912 Cambr. City (Indiana) Tribune 10 Oct. Ned McCarr drove the colt in company with George Gano, 2:02, and through the stretch the youngster was keeping the veteran race horse mighty busy.

1961 Times 22 June 18/2 Mr. J. W. Howlett's veteran bull..was beaten into third place among the senior bulls.

2013 Shanghai Daily (Nexis) 27 June Mao Mao, an eight-year-old veteran sniffer dog, looked at Ni Jinsong, her new master curiously.

Compounds

C1. Compounds of the adjective.

veteran-looking adj.

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1826 C. E. Lefroy Outalissi 323 The only one officer of His Netherland's Majesty..that has appeared to me..is the present Governor, Major General de Veer, a fine, soldierly, veteran-looking, hospitality-hearted man.

1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xvii. 8 Several of the adjacent veteran-looking trees.

2008 A. AtKisson ISIS Agreement ix. 201 An older, veteran-looking bureaucrat suggested that..they should write up the conclusions of the day in report form.

C2. Compounds of the noun.

a. General attributive. Often in titles of organizations for ex-members of the armed forces.

(a) With the first element in singular form.

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1796 Daily Advertiser 6 Sept. (advt.) The Kingston Veteran Society.

1804 Caledonian Mercury 17 Nov. (advt.) The Veteran Club meets at Oman's Tavern on Thursday the 29th current.

1905 Washington Post 4 May 4/5 (heading) Veteran society of the civil war holds final session.

1949 Republican-Courier (Findlay, Ohio) 1 Oct. 3/3 The 40th annual banquet of the Veteran Association of the Pennsylvania railroad held in Fort Wayne this week.

2013 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 29 May a12/4 In lieu of flowers, donations to the Salvation Army,..or to any Veteran association of your choice, would be appreciated.

(b) With the first element in plural or genitive plural form.

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1863 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 7 Mar. Suppl. (advt.) The Veterans' Society will receive no part of the Grant from the Committee, but only the enrolled Pensioners.

1865 Boston Post 6 June Veterans' Association.—The returned veterans resident in East Boston have formed an association.

1896 Centralia (Washington) Daily Sentinel 28 Sept. The veterans' bureau..is daily thronged by prominent military men actively engaged in the organization of the old soldiers.

1925 Polit. Sci. Q. 40 (Suppl.) 62 Special senate committees were investigating..land frauds in Rio Grande County..and the Veterans Bureau.

1931 U.S. Laws & Statutes XLVI. i. 1016 The President is authorized..to consolidate and coordinate any hospitals and executive and administrative bureaus..into an establishment to be known as the Veterans' Administration.

1946 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Oct. 2/5 The War Assets Administration ordered its surplus building materials pushed into the veterans housing program within 60 days.

1972 G. W. Johnson in P. D. Curtin Afr. & West 153 Diouf was more at home with his companions of the war, the veterans organizations.

1999 Gymnast Jan. 38/2 Pat English demonstrated splits that most boys would die for when he competed in the Scottish Veterans championships.

2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Mar. 32/2 The state rituals of newly independent Kenya offered no space to the forest fighters [sc. Mau Mau], who nursed their grievances in veterans' associations under the watchful eye of the security services.

Veterans Day n. (also Veterans' Day) (in the United States) a day honouring military veterans, (now) spec. a public holiday held on the anniversary of the end of the First World War (11 November) to honour United States veterans and victims of all wars.Veterans Day replaced Armistice Day as the official name of the holiday in 1954.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] > solemn or religious remembrance

minda1325

obsequyc1385

wreath-laying1888

Remembrance Day1895

Veterans Day1912

silence1919

Poppy Day1921

Remembrance Sunday1925

moment of silence1942

1912 I. S. Cobb Back Home 38 Saturday..was also Veterans' Day , when the old soldiers were the guests of honor of the management.

1954 Birmingham (Alabama) News 11 Nov. 41/1 The Sheppard murder trial jury took a Veterans Day holiday today.

1995 F. G. Vogel World War I Songs Introd. 2/2 Even before what once was known as ‘Armistice Day’ in the United States was subsumed into the more generic ‘Veterans Day’, many people were regarding it as a minor holiday to be given over to relaxation or mall shopping.

Derivatives

ˈveterancy n. [after French vétérance (1705)] the state or condition of being a veteran.

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the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > state of being

veterancy1755

old fogeyism1853

elderliness1876

1755 J. Mills tr. J. B. L. Crevier Hist. Rom. Emperors II. iv. 81 He also laid hold of this opportunity, to abolish the indulgence of Veterancy [Fr. vétérance] at sixteen years, which had been extorted by the seditious in Germany and Pannonia.

1867 O. W. Davis Life of David Bell Birney 32 These goodly men..still bore earnest traces of their veterancy, and received plaudits to the echo whenever and wherever recognized.

1902 Daily Chron. 23 July 5/3 This cricketer..is now, in his veterancy, both batting and bowling better than ever before.

2015 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Jan. He is not responsible for the cult of perseverance and veterancy that pervades Major League Baseball.

ˈveteraness n. now rare a female veteran.

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the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun]

old wifeeOE

old womanOE

trota1375

carlinec1375

cronec1386

vecke1390

monea1393

hagc1400

ribibec1405

aunt?a1425

crate14..

witchc1475

mauda1500

mackabroine1546

grandam?1550

grannam1565

old lady1575

beldam1580

lucky1629

granny1634

patriarchess1639

runta1652

harridan1699

grimalkin1798

mama1810

tante1815

wifie1823

maw1826

old dear1836

tante1845

Mother Bunch1847

douairière1869

dowager1870

veteraness1880

old trout1897

tab1909

bag1924

crow1925

ma1932

Skinny Liz1940

old bag1947

old boot1958

tannie1958

LOL1960

1880 Sat. Rev. 8 May 588 On the platform..many heroines gathered, some of them veteranesses in this war and others recruits to the cause.

1918 Daily Examiner (Connersville, Indiana) 5/3 Mrs. Davis is a veteraness of the Civil War.

1964 Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 4 Nov. z5/5 Veteraness... Character actress Connie Gilchrist celebrates her 40th year in show business with a key role in ‘Sylvin’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	veteran
释义	veterann.adj. Brit. /ˈvɛt(ə)rən/, /ˈvɛt(ə)rn̩/, U.S. /ˈvɛdərən/, /ˈvɛtrən/ Forms: 1500s–1600s veterane, 1500s– veteran, 1600s ueteran, 1600s veterant, 1600s–1700s veterean. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin veterānus. Etymology: < classical Latin veterānus (masculine noun) experienced or mature person, (adjective) mature, experienced, especially of troops < veter- , vetus old, having lived a long time, long-established, belonging to or existing in the past ( < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit vatsara , Mycenaean Greek we-to (ancient Greek ἔτος : compare etesian adj.), Albanian vit , all in sense ‘year’, and Old Church Slavonic vetŭxŭ , Lithuanian †vetušas , both in sense ‘old, ancient’) + -ānus -an suffix.Compare Middle French veteran , French vétéran (1520 as veterain ), Spanish veterano (15th cent.), Portuguese veterano (1582), Italian veterano (14th cent.), all found as both noun and adjective. With the form veterean perhaps compare -ean suffix. The form veterant shows excrescent t. A. n. 1. a. A person with long experience in military service or warfare. Also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > veteran soldier veteran?1504 man of service1553 campaigner1771 old moustache1828 warhorse1836 vet1848 Old Bill1915 old sweat1919 retread1941 grognard1959 ?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. ff.iii^v Than spake the lady fayre dame charyte Welcome vertue the noble veteran. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xxviii. 131 The sturdy knight well named fortytude With the noble veterane syr consuetude. 1601 W. Fulbecke Hist. Coll. Continuall Factions 132 M. Varro captaine to a great number of Veteranes, did hold a forcelet. 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Veterans, old soldiers. 1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician II. 248 Even Veterans, who had never kept Guard. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 3 June 65 A sound that will force the bravest Veteran to drop his weapon, and desert his rank. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxiv. 25 Military governments, which were intended for the support of worn out veterans. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. xix. 153 Veterans of early fields were there, Whose helmets press'd their hoary hair. 1837 W. Whewell tr. J. Kepler in Hist. Inductive Sci. I. v. iv. 422 Sending into the field a reserve of new physical reasonings on the rout and dispersion of the veterans. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico II. iii. ix. 68 Then came the Spanish infantry, who in a summer's campaign had acquired the discipline, and the weather-beaten aspect, of veterans. 1882 J. Rhŷs Celtic Brit. iii. 80 Ostorius establishes a strong colony of veterans at Camulodunon. 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. iii. 298 She was beginning to read these things with the air of an old soldier listening to a fellow veteran only a year or two older than himself. 1951 L. Brackett in Startling Stories Mar. 37/2 The officers treated him with the affable contempt of the veteran for the amateur. 2012 CQ Federal Depart. & Agency Documents (Nexis) 11 Nov. The first step..involves offering transition assistance for veterans still in service. b. An ex-member of the armed forces; a former serviceman or servicewoman (now chiefly North American). Also with of or modifying word: a person who served in the specified conflict, armed force, etc.war veteran: see the first element.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense A. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > ex-soldier or ex-serviceman veteran1577 old soldier1640 war veteran1906 VFW1920 Old Bill1925 oudstryder1942 1577 J. Bishop Beautifull Blossomes x. f. 49 He was not able no not to pay the souldiers their wages, nor the Veteranes their rewards and pensions. 1607 Bp. J. King tr. St. Jerome in Serm. Sept. 40 I was once a souldiour, now a Veteran. 1669 J. Davies tr. Florus Rom. Hist iv. vii. 200 The distribution of the Lands which Caesar assign'd the Veteranes, as a reward for their service. 1760 J. Beattie in tr. Virgil 1st Pastoral in Orig. Poems & Transl. 89 Augustus, in order to reward the services of his Veterans,..distributed among them the lands that lay contiguous to Mantua. 1798 W. Dunlap Andre p. iv The Author has gone near to offend the veterans of the American army who were present on the first night. 1838 Southern Literary Messenger 4 796 When the revolutionary pension-law was enacted, a majority of the war-worn veterans had travelled..beyond the reach of human reward. 1874 Dundee Courier & Argus 7 Apr. Death has removed the second last representative of the old Peninsular and Waterloo veterans in Dundee. 1924 F. J. Haskin Amer. Govt. 401 In the wake of the World War there came the problem of the treatment..of the disabled veterans of that great conflict. 1982 Times 13 Dec. 3/6 (heading) Falklands veteran killed at 22. 1998 City Paper (Baltimore) 30 Sept. 18/3 An idea..to form a men's a cappella choir out of a group of formerly homeless veterans. 2007 Independent 11 Jan. 4/4 Already a veteran of two command tours in Iraq, he is also recognised as the US military's leading expert on fighting insurgencies. 2014 Providence Jrnl. 13 June 1 Luz is a well-known Iraq veteran... She..was deployed in October of 2006 to help run a combat support hospital in Mosul. 2. A person with long experience in a particular (non-military) position, field, or activity; any experienced or ageing person. Often with of; also with in.screen veteran: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > old and experienced person veteran1565 old standard1588 old soaker1590 oldie1799 old-timer1860 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > familiarity with a thing > one who has long experience veteran1565 old stager1570 old, ancient, or long stander1590 stager1664 old soldier1722 old hand1764 warhorse1836 1565 A. Nowell Reproufe Pref. sig. A4 In iesting, scoffing, mockinge, and railinge, he is suche a Veterane, and so olde a practicioner, that he doth plainely raigne, yea and triumphe too, in the schoole of scolding. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlii. 85 The Arrians for the credit of their faction take the eldest, the best experienced, the most warie and the longest practised Veterans they had amongst them. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ii. 34 A sturdy veteran in roguery. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. ii. ii. 163 The servants were all veterans, gorgeous in their liveries. 1826 Lancet 16 Dec. 351/2 The medico-obstetrical veteran of the North has described the same affection. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) ii. vi. 367 Miss Fanny..said the usual nothings with the skill of a veteran. 1915 Paper-maker & Brit. Paper Trade Jrnl. Mar. 300/2 Mr. Hans Bie,..who is one of the veterans of the paper-making industry, is about to retire. 1957 F. Kohner Gidget 29 Being a veteran of arguments around the breakfast table my instinct told me it was useless to scratch further. 1984 Times 3 Mar. 17/2 Classic mainstream jazz trumpet from a veteran of the Count Basie orchestra. 2013 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 July 22/1 At 51, Le Gallou was a veteran of thousands of base jumps. 3. An animal that has been used in a particular capacity for a long time; an experienced or ageing animal. ΚΠ 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 22 The new backely [sc. South African ox] is then joined with one of the veterans of his own kind, from whom he learns his art. 1792 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (new ed.) iii. viii. 438 They start all at once, the horses having ranged themselves in regular Indian file, the veteran in the van, and the younger in the rear. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iii. 63 When the angler essays his skill upon the wily old veterans of the pond. 1883 Those Pretty St. George Girls 103 He [sc. Reynard] held his brush gallantly erect, but it was no use; the hounds were veterans,..and they were too keen to be easily put off. 1919 Outing Mar. 311/1 As an illustration of how regular living has done its part in maintaining the veteran on his championship throne, we might remark casually that Frank [sc. a racehorse] rode the fastest mile of his entire career in 1914. 1952 B. Catton Glory Road vi. 302 Lieutenant James Stewart..was on his horse amid his guns, facing always toward the enemy—partly because he was a brave man and partly because his horse was a veteran with certain fixed ideas about battle. 1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food xi. 337 The duck may be called the veteran of the henhouse, which might more properly be called the duckhouse, since poultry yards were first organized around that fowl. 1998 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) 20 Nov. d6 Three other St. Paul police dogs have been killed in the line of duty... Callahan, a three-year veteran of the department, was 6 years old. 4. An old or well-used thing; spec. (British) a veteran car (see sense B. 3b). Also with of a place of use, event, or other context. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > veteran or vintage veteran1914 vintage car1979 1914 E. Wharton Let. 1 May (1988) 322 We managed to charter two crippled sea-chairs (veterans of the first Trans-Atlantics, probably). 1937 Times 20 Sept. 19/5 Definition of a veteran... The club's definition of a veteran car is one that was manufactured before 1905. 1948 Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Mar. 28/2 Tasmania's oldest apple-tree..is no more. Fierce gales and storms..early this year were too strong for the veteran. 1968 Woman's Own 28 Sept. 28/1 A veteran is a car built before 1905. 1982 C.Wheeler Hist. Sheep Stations N.Z. 41 (caption) The old wool wagon, veteran of many river crossings. 2015 Crawley News (Nexis) 4 Nov. 23 (headline) Veterans of the road roll into High Street. B. adj. (chiefly and now only attributive) 1. Having long experience in military service or warfare; (of a military unit) consisting of experienced military personnel. Occasionally also: designating a former member of the armed forces. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [adjective] > veteran veteran1548 aguerried1735 vet1889 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxiv They..appointed the veterane souldiour, and valiaunt Capitayn, Ihon lord Talbot, and erle of Shrewsburye to be chefetayn of the armye. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvi. 651/1 Veterant souldiers, most of which were of skill sufficient to be commanders themselues. 1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 170 The Veteran Souldiery of the United Provinces. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 55 The veterane Janizaries were all either slain or dead. 1734 J. Breval Hist. House of Nassau 70 An Army of 30,000 Veteran Spaniards. 1759 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Earl of Eglinton (1885) 316 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4575) XLIV. 1 So much has the present War drain'd them of their Veteran Troops. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xviii. 121 The loss of a veteran army, sufficient to defend the frontiers. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. x. 292 Here report said, that Adrian de Bubenberg, a veteran knight of Berne, commanded. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 460 His professional skill commanded the respect of veteran officers. 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 236 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing the flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball. 1908 J. Conrad Set of Six x. 51 She wore..the sword of poor Don Antonio de Leyva. This veteran Chilian officer..found his death at the hands of the Arauco Indians. 1940 Del Rio (Texas) News-Herald 26 Apr. 6/4 (headline) Veteran general leads British troops in Norway. 1972 D. Pope Great Gamble iii. 42 Their hostess..was a social dragon... She enjoyed having veteran admirals and captains at her mercy. 1998 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 17 June 9 The millionaire [receives] the same pension as the impoverished veteran serviceman or his widow. 2015 T. Anderson Straits of Hell (2016) xi. 119 He and his veteran squadrons would reap a heavy harvest against the incoming raid. 2. Having long experience in a particular (non-military) position, field, or activity. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > [adjective] > old and experienced venerable?a1500 grey-haired1611 veteran1624 grand1845 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > skilled or experienced oldOE well-usedc1300 experientc1420 way-wisea1460 pertly1466 practica1522 perite1530 well-practised1539 well-experienced1541 practised1548 experienced1576 veteran1624 practical1632 well-seasoned1640 seasoneda1643 callent1656 versant1766 used1786 salted1864 roteda1901 shell-backed1930 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > accustomed, used, or wont > familiar with or experienced in anything familiar1509 frequentative1575 experienced1576 beatena1593 frequent1609 veteran1624 seasoneda1643 hackneyed1749 1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 241 Not onely Mr. White, but veterane Papists themselues are perplexed in resoluing the mysteries thereof. 1652 E. Walsingham tr. E. de Refuge Arcana Aulica iii. 6 Princes..are so hedged in with the number of Peers, and train of Veterane Courtiers that a stranger can hardly thrust in amongst the throng that stand in his way. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A Veteran Counsellor has a Voice and Seat at Audiences. 1789 W. Belsham Ess. II. xl. 502 Did it never occur to this veteran politician that there are degrees of misconduct? 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 528 The veteran English author was not slow to reply. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 255 Godolphin had..early acquired all the flexibility and the self-possession of a veteran courtier. 1883 R. B. Smith Life Ld. Lawrence II. xxviii. 532 The veteran Viceroy walked round to the sacred spot. 1936 Nevada State Jrnl. 14 June 12/1 The pace car of this year's race, driven by Tommy Milton, veteran retired racing champion and now a Packard engineer, was a Packard One-twenty. 1968 J. M. White Nightclimber (1970) ix. 74 The veteran torero..had received a cornada in the groin..and died three hours later. 2014 S. Harvey Dear Thief (2015) 82 You play our old table like a veteran croupier, sweeping up the Solitaire hand when I come along and transforming it in seconds into a Poker hand. 3. a. Designating something that has existed for a long time; old, much used; of long standing; long-continued, well-established. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > of long standing longOE oldOE veterate?1541 long-rooted1562 of long standinga1568 old-standinga1627 veteran1648 long-running1651 long-standing1655 old-established1776 long-breathed1816 long-time1851 1648 T. Fairfax Displaying Life-Guards Colours 6 That we may have our Accompts as well veterane as new audited and Registred by the Commitee of the Army..and visible security given to us according to the Agreement. 1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 44 Our old bottels and veterane Wines..are sound, sweet, well-refined, and full of spirits. 1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iv. 208 The payment of Tithes was grown to be a Veteran and thorough settled Constitution of this Kingdom. 1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) i. 15 In art unschool'd; each veteran rule he priz'd. 1806 St. James's Chron. 18 Jan. The veteran car remains unmended. Indeed 'tis hardly worth repair, Unless, perhaps, for Smithfield Fair. 1823 T. Roughley Jamaica Planter's Guide iii. 151 I would never put the road cattle, intended for carrying the crop to the wharf, to any other kind of work, so much depending upon their veteran, steady efforts, when in need of them. 1833 H. W. Longfellow tr. J. Manrique Coplas 63 By great And veteran service to the state,..He stood..The proudest knight of chivalry. 1870 Dubuque (Iowa) Daily Herald 7 Sept. The fame of that old gun is sounded abroad and applications for its use are numerous: richly mounted and highly polished muskets or rifles are nothing alongside of the veteran weapon. 1892 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 16 Dec. 5/2 The veteran hunting boat, steamer Salem, will leave Sunday at 2 A.M. 1904 Boston Post 10 Aug. 8/3 (advt.) Reuter's Sterling Ale has never retreated from the field of quality. It is a veteran Ale well fit for veterans. 1992 1001 Images of Dogs i. 24 The Pyrenean Sheepdog..is the veteran breed of French sheepdogs. 2011 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 8 July 78 It was perfectly paired with another appetizer, one of the chef's veteran recipes. b. British. Designating a style or model of motor vehicle made before a certain stipulated date, typically 1919 or (more strictly) 1905. Chiefly in veteran car, contrasted with vintage car n. at vintage n. 4b (cf. also classic car at classic adj. 7b). Hence: designating the oldest class of other products of manufacture (often coupled with vintage) . ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [adjective] > of specific age veteran1931 1931 Scotsman 14 Nov. 9 (headline) Veteran car run. 1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England xiii. 222 A three-mile clatter in the veteran car—‘never can get the new car,’ explained Mr. Fielding. 1958 M. Kelly Christmas Egg iii. 107 An apartment..was devoted to the needs of those who..wished to play vintage and veteran records. 1959 Listener 29 Jan. 201/2 A veteran car is generally considered to be a pre-1917 model though a few extremely exclusive owners recognise only pre-1905 cars as qualifying for the title. 1961 J. Sheldon (title) Veteran and vintage motor cycles. 1965 L. Hunt (title) Veteran and vintage aircraft. 1980 Times 1 Nov. 14/2 Nineteen-thirty had seen the foundation of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain. 1992 M. Baren How it all Began 2/2 From 1953 to 1957 the company produced more construction kits, covering sections such as aircraft, historical ships, veteran cars,..and historical subjects. 1996 Adv. Driving Milestones Winter 15 The term ‘classic car’ generally refers to cars from the post-war era, as distinct from vintage and veteran. 4. Of an animal: that has been used in a particular capacity for a long time; experienced, ageing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > [adjective] > period of animal's life veteran1793 1793 St. James's Chron. 29 Oct. This meekness of spirit seems to run through the individual of every species exhibited, from the gallant Stallion to the veteran Bull. 1847 T. T. Stoddart Angler's Compan. 250 Give me..the rush of some veteran water-monarch, or the gambol..of a plump new-run grilse. 1870 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 23 Sept. He has twelve or fifteen full-blooded Durhams, all the progeny of Grand Turk, a veteran bull who is also on the ground. 1891 Weekly Sentinel & Wisconsin Farm Jrnl. 18 June 8/2 The veteran stallion at the Bradley farm is Milwaukee whose age is estimated at 30 to 35. 1912 Cambr. City (Indiana) Tribune 10 Oct. Ned McCarr drove the colt in company with George Gano, 2:02, and through the stretch the youngster was keeping the veteran race horse mighty busy. 1961 Times 22 June 18/2 Mr. J. W. Howlett's veteran bull..was beaten into third place among the senior bulls. 2013 Shanghai Daily (Nexis) 27 June Mao Mao, an eight-year-old veteran sniffer dog, looked at Ni Jinsong, her new master curiously. Compounds C1. Compounds of the adjective. veteran-looking adj. ΚΠ 1826 C. E. Lefroy Outalissi 323 The only one officer of His Netherland's Majesty..that has appeared to me..is the present Governor, Major General de Veer, a fine, soldierly, veteran-looking, hospitality-hearted man. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xvii. 8 Several of the adjacent veteran-looking trees. 2008 A. AtKisson ISIS Agreement ix. 201 An older, veteran-looking bureaucrat suggested that..they should write up the conclusions of the day in report form. C2. Compounds of the noun. a. General attributive. Often in titles of organizations for ex-members of the armed forces. (a) With the first element in singular form. ΚΠ 1796 Daily Advertiser 6 Sept. (advt.) The Kingston Veteran Society. 1804 Caledonian Mercury 17 Nov. (advt.) The Veteran Club meets at Oman's Tavern on Thursday the 29th current. 1905 Washington Post 4 May 4/5 (heading) Veteran society of the civil war holds final session. 1949 Republican-Courier (Findlay, Ohio) 1 Oct. 3/3 The 40th annual banquet of the Veteran Association of the Pennsylvania railroad held in Fort Wayne this week. 2013 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 29 May a12/4 In lieu of flowers, donations to the Salvation Army,..or to any Veteran association of your choice, would be appreciated. (b) With the first element in plural or genitive plural form. ΚΠ 1863 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 7 Mar. Suppl. (advt.) The Veterans' Society will receive no part of the Grant from the Committee, but only the enrolled Pensioners. 1865 Boston Post 6 June Veterans' Association.—The returned veterans resident in East Boston have formed an association. 1896 Centralia (Washington) Daily Sentinel 28 Sept. The veterans' bureau..is daily thronged by prominent military men actively engaged in the organization of the old soldiers. 1925 Polit. Sci. Q. 40 (Suppl.) 62 Special senate committees were investigating..land frauds in Rio Grande County..and the Veterans Bureau. 1931 U.S. Laws & Statutes XLVI. i. 1016 The President is authorized..to consolidate and coordinate any hospitals and executive and administrative bureaus..into an establishment to be known as the Veterans' Administration. 1946 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Oct. 2/5 The War Assets Administration ordered its surplus building materials pushed into the veterans housing program within 60 days. 1972 G. W. Johnson in P. D. Curtin Afr. & West 153 Diouf was more at home with his companions of the war, the veterans organizations. 1999 Gymnast Jan. 38/2 Pat English demonstrated splits that most boys would die for when he competed in the Scottish Veterans championships. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Mar. 32/2 The state rituals of newly independent Kenya offered no space to the forest fighters [sc. Mau Mau], who nursed their grievances in veterans' associations under the watchful eye of the security services. b. Veterans Day n. (also Veterans' Day) (in the United States) a day honouring military veterans, (now) spec. a public holiday held on the anniversary of the end of the First World War (11 November) to honour United States veterans and victims of all wars.Veterans Day replaced Armistice Day as the official name of the holiday in 1954. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] > solemn or religious remembrance minda1325 obsequyc1385 wreath-laying1888 Remembrance Day1895 Veterans Day1912 silence1919 Poppy Day1921 Remembrance Sunday1925 moment of silence1942 1912 I. S. Cobb Back Home 38 Saturday..was also Veterans' Day , when the old soldiers were the guests of honor of the management. 1954 Birmingham (Alabama) News 11 Nov. 41/1 The Sheppard murder trial jury took a Veterans Day holiday today. 1995 F. G. Vogel World War I Songs Introd. 2/2 Even before what once was known as ‘Armistice Day’ in the United States was subsumed into the more generic ‘Veterans Day’, many people were regarding it as a minor holiday to be given over to relaxation or mall shopping. Derivatives ˈveterancy n. [after French vétérance (1705)] the state or condition of being a veteran. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > state of being veterancy1755 old fogeyism1853 elderliness1876 1755 J. Mills tr. J. B. L. Crevier Hist. Rom. Emperors II. iv. 81 He also laid hold of this opportunity, to abolish the indulgence of Veterancy [Fr. vétérance] at sixteen years, which had been extorted by the seditious in Germany and Pannonia. 1867 O. W. Davis Life of David Bell Birney 32 These goodly men..still bore earnest traces of their veterancy, and received plaudits to the echo whenever and wherever recognized. 1902 Daily Chron. 23 July 5/3 This cricketer..is now, in his veterancy, both batting and bowling better than ever before. 2015 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Jan. He is not responsible for the cult of perseverance and veterancy that pervades Major League Baseball. ˈveteraness n. now rare a female veteran. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] old wifeeOE old womanOE trota1375 carlinec1375 cronec1386 vecke1390 monea1393 hagc1400 ribibec1405 aunt?a1425 crate14.. witchc1475 mauda1500 mackabroine1546 grandam?1550 grannam1565 old lady1575 beldam1580 lucky1629 granny1634 patriarchess1639 runta1652 harridan1699 grimalkin1798 mama1810 tante1815 wifie1823 maw1826 old dear1836 tante1845 Mother Bunch1847 douairière1869 dowager1870 veteraness1880 old trout1897 tab1909 bag1924 crow1925 ma1932 Skinny Liz1940 old bag1947 old boot1958 tannie1958 LOL1960 1880 Sat. Rev. 8 May 588 On the platform..many heroines gathered, some of them veteranesses in this war and others recruits to the cause. 1918 Daily Examiner (Connersville, Indiana) 5/3 Mrs. Davis is a veteraness of the Civil War. 1964 Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 4 Nov. z5/5 Veteraness... Character actress Connie Gilchrist celebrates her 40th year in show business with a key role in ‘Sylvin’. 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