"veteran" meaning in English

See veteran in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈvɛ.tə.rən/, [ˈvɛ.t̬ə.rən] [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-veteran.wav [UK] Forms: veteran [singular], veterans [plural]
Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A veteran is a person with long experience of a particular activity.
    Sense id: simple-veteran-en-noun-5LNBa-gu
  2. A veteran is a person who has served in the army, especially an old soldier who has seen long service.
    Sense id: simple-veteran-en-noun-BGJhtdZ5 Categories (other): Military
     
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "veteran",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veterans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A veteran is a person with long experience of a particular activity."
      ],
      "id": "simple-veteran-en-noun-5LNBa-gu",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Military",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A veteran is a person who has served in the army, especially an old soldier who has seen long service."
      ],
      "id": "simple-veteran-en-noun-BGJhtdZ5",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable",
        "military"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvɛ.tə.rən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈvɛ.t̬ə.rən]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-veteran.wav",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "veteran"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "veteran",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veterans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A veteran is a person with long experience of a particular activity."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns",
        "Military"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A veteran is a person who has served in the army, especially an old soldier who has seen long service."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable",
        "military"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvɛ.tə.rən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈvɛ.t̬ə.rən]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-veteran.wav",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "veteran"
}

Download raw JSONL data for veteran meaning in English (0.7kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-28 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c7bdf0e and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.