veteran – English noun declension

English noun forms of veteran

Noun: veteran
Singularveteran
Pluralveterans

Sample Sentences

  • The company's new hires were nervous, but the veterans were self-assured because, as one summarized it, "this isn't our first rodeo."
  • Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today. [2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2020, page 70:]
  • We honor veterans and senior citizens with a ten percent discount.
  • For 55-year-old U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park, this was the hardest moment of his life. […] Park's story reflects both the challenges of life after combat and the perils that noncitizen veterans face if caught in the legal system — realities made harsher amid the Trump administration's push for record deportations. [2025 June 24, Juliana Kim, “Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.”, in NPR:]
  • Their mules were clearly veterans. They seemed to know what to do even better than the teenage farmhand who was driving the team.
  • Most of the cars which we call "veterans" today were on view at the Motor Show of 1911. [1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 87:]
  • The label has often collaborated with other designers, like Australian shoemaker Teva and American woolwear veteran Pendleton. [2018 April 1, Cristian Bonetto, Lonely Planet Pocket Copenhagen, →ISBN, page 81:]

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French vétéran, from Latin veterānus. See: Latin Nouns 'veterānus'.