Synonym: experienced, practiced, sophisticated, worldly-wise. Similar words: inveterate, one after another, meter, active transport, cemetery, tolerance, the rank and file, after all. Meaning: ['vetrən /'vetərən] 
n. 1. a serviceman who has seen considerable active service 2. a person who has served in the armed forces 3. an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service. adj. rendered competent through trial and experience.
n. 1. a serviceman who has seen considerable active service 2. a person who has served in the armed forces 3. an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service. adj. rendered competent through trial and experience. 
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91 About 55 percent of those questioned believed that the veteran politician had not made clear what he would do as president.
92 But it was the 38 year old veteran, Jimmy Connors, who made the blood come to the boil.
93 He could check it, he supposed, with the new super, a tough-talking veteran with a pit bull.
94 But after joining the Veteran ranks in August, Wheway has not disappointed his public.
95 He is a veteran campaigner against the screening system, but at 76(sentencedict.com), time is not on his side.
96 He was a grizzled veteran, spare of body, and as supple in the saddle as a youth.
97 An Army veteran, Stefanoff prides himself on his lack of law enforcement experience and on his record of civil disobedience.
98 All-time greatness would doubtless be bestowed upon Carling, already a veteran captain at 26.
99 A bipartisan drive to change the rules for financing federal campaigns is running into stiff resistance from veteran members of Congress.
100 A disgruntled Gulf War veteran was arrested for the crime, which killed 169 people.
101 The man behind the anniversary jump is veteran parachutist Geoffrey Holmes from Henley-on-Thames.
102 Then there was Robert M.. Sweitzer, a veteran office-holder, who became county treasurer in December 1934.
103 The 35-year veteran of Capitol Hill can not brag that he knows how to pass bills through the Senate.
104 Josie intends to join him when she has completed her assignment for Jones, a hardened veteran of the juicy tidbit wars.
105 Hancock, a native of Great Britain, is a veteran of the computer business.
106 Hayman had implicit trust in his hit-men, especially against some one he regarded as an old, rusty, washed-up veteran.
107 Harold Ickes, a veteran reformer(sentencedict.com), was Secretary of the Interior.
108 Meanwhile, the scarred veteran Inman is experiencing his own harrowing, perilous odyssey as the Civil War rages on.
109 He was as calm and collected as any veteran on the ground.
110 Starting with Ellis-MacLeod, a silver-haired symphony veteran, they lead the orchestra in a fascinating display of stylistic diversity.
111 However, 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood.
112 He was turning on the ball right away against veteran pitchers.
113 Veteran readers of Ireland's Saturday Night can still rhyme off the contributors who used to grace its pages.
114 Not surprisingly, the gray-haired veteran shuns sophisticated financial instruments to hedge against interest-rate increases.
115 Warren Rudman, a much-respected political veteran, said just before the primary that Buchanan is unelectable.
116 Now we know why veteran Celtics guard Dee Brown asked to be traded.
117 The 10-year Apple veteran said the company would not unveil an overall Internet strategy at Macworld.
118 This is specifically the case with veteran rapper Ty.
119 Fenton, thin, balding and ascetic, was another veteran.
120 We have a veteran engraver here.
More similar words: inveterate, one after another, meter, active transport, cemetery, tolerance, the rank and file, after all, literally, literary, interact, interaction, after a while, over and over, have to, have to do with, athlete, compete, detect, concrete, diabetes, detective, contretemps, era, brand, rank, grand, opera, range, a grand.