veteran
/ˈvɛ.tə.ɹən/ sustantivo B2En español: veterano, lobo de mar
- A person with long experience of a particular activity. · The company's new hires were nervous, but the veterans were self-assured because, as one summarized it, "this isn't our first rodeo."
- A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service. · We honor veterans and senior citizens with a ten percent discount.
- A group, animal, etc. with long experience of a particular activity. · Their mules were clearly veterans. They seemed to know what to do even better than the teenage farmhand who was driving the team.
Plural veterans
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“Why, this is the way of it,” said the minister, with the gravest air in the world: “Napoleon lately had a review, and as two or three of his old veterans expressed a desire to return to France, he gave them their dismissal, and exhorted them to ‘serve the good king.’ These were his own words, of that I am certain.”
Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
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