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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151 As a veteran, curator had witnessed this horribly drawn - out death before.
152 Bill Campbell - the first veteran to receive a Dog Tag dog - was returning to the prison to meet the inmate who trained Pax, she had to capture that moment.
153 Mark Creasy, a veteran prospector who now employs 10 geologists and staff, made at least A$130 million when he sold his Bronzewing and Jundee discoveries north of Kalgoorlie in 1994.
154 The Counterterrorism Center, or CTC , as veteran hands call it , has become the CIA's busiest outfit.
155 The veteran market strategist was one of the most bearish analysts at the start of 2008, and he has remained cautious.sentencedict.com
156 Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn is a shambling wreck of a man: a grizzled veteran of a few too many shootouts, he wears a black patch over one eye and has the unmistakable whiff of stale whiskey about him.
157 Sylvester Stallone as Barney Ross aka The Schizo, a veteran Expendable and leader of the team.
158 The Asian Americans currently serving in Obama's Cabinet are Eric Shinseki, secretary of veteran affairs, and Steven Chu, secretary of energy.
159 The veteran US motor journalist, Paul Eisenstein reflects on the rise and precipitous fall of Toyota.
160 The St. Johns ' Headquarters allows the recruitment of veteran Hospitaller knights.
161 Through him I met other struggling artists, like Joe Delaney , a veteran painter from Knoxville, Tennessee.
162 Veteran soldier: Fight? Against that? No, we will run and we will live.
163 It is a vindication for Li Peng, the veteran Leninist central planner.
164 After the death of her mother, Sonora and her siblings were raised by their father William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran.
165 The veteran worker ranks high in public love and esteem.
166 One veteran Atlantic City lifeguard caught a couple having sex under a blanket in broad daylight.
167 I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
168 Mejia, the first known Iraq veteran to refuse combat, applied for conscientious objector status in 2004.
169 High rents force out Veteran Clubs in New York City.
170 The 17 - year veteran has been averaging just eight minutes per game.
171 Stay-at-home veteran: "Well, for starters, you can train the kids to do a little bit of work around the house.
172 Our veteran comrades are liable to be taken in by them.
173 In what way is the film different from Edogawa Rampo's novel The Caterpillar, which is about a WWII veteran, who returns home as a quadriplegic?
174 Tom Dula was a Civil War veteran in North Carolina.
175 Dusty: Early 20's. The "everyman" type of character. A farm boy with many innocent delusions about war. We follow his progress from raw recruit to cynical veteran.
176 The chief dispatcher, a whitehaired veteran, looked offended as he answered Nim's questions.
177 Several leading members of the governing Democratic Party threw their support behind Mr. Kan, a sharp-tongued political veteran who earned a name for himself by battling Japan's powerful bureaucrats.
178 True-blue, gentlemanly, veteran gentleman who succeeded in his business with kind temper treating the girls well. I could accept you only by your patience and your cordiality!
179 Mr. Kan had promised to root out "money politics" after a veteran power broker in his party was caught up in a scandal.
180 Veteran actor Chan Hung-lit collapsed during shooting of TVB soap opera Off Pedder and died in hospital from a suspected heart attack.
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.