veteran

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• /ˈvɛ.tə.ɹən/
  Play
• /ˈvɛ.tɹən/
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• US: [ˈvɛ.t̬ə.ɹən]
  Play
• US: [ˈvɛ.ɾə.ɹən]
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: V EH1 T ER0 AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play
• CMU ARPABET 2: V EH1 T R AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Borrowed from Middle French vétéran, from Latin veterānus.

116 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: опитен (opiten) — with long experience
• Chinese Mandarin: 经验丰富的 — with long experience
• Danish: erfaren — with long experience
• Dutch: ervaren — with long experience
• Galician: veterano — with long experience
• Georgian: ვეტერანი (veṭerani) — with long experience
• Georgian: გამოცდილი (gamocdili) — with long experience
• Georgian: გამორძმედილი (gamorʒmedili) — with long experience
• Irish: ársa — with long experience
• Persian: کارکشته (kâr-košte) — with long experience
• Persian: کهنهکار (kohne-kâr) — with long experience
• Portuguese: veterano — with long experience
• Spanish: veterano — with long experience
• Spanish: aguerrido — with long experience
• Swedish: veteran- — with long experience
• Swedish: erfaren — with long experience
• Ottoman Turkish: اسكی (eski) — with long experience
• Bulgarian: ветерански (veteranski) — related to former members of armed forces
• Danish: veteran- — related to former members of armed forces
• Dutch: veteranen- — related to former members of armed forces
• Galician: veterano — related to former members of armed forces
• Portuguese: veterano — related to former members of armed forces
• Spanish: retirado — related to former members of armed forces
• Swedish: veteran- — related to former members of armed forces
• Bulgarian: ветеран (veteran) — person with long experience
• Catalan: veterà — person with long experience
• Chinese Mandarin: 經驗豐富的人 /经验丰富的人 (jīngyàn fēngfù de rén) — person with long experience
• Chinese Mandarin: 老手 (lǎoshǒu) — person with long experience
• Chinese Mandarin: 老將 /老将 (lǎojiàng) — person with long experience
• Danish: veteran — person with long experience
• Dutch: veteraan — person with long experience
• Dutch: oudgediende — person with long experience
• Finnish: veteraani — person with long experience
• Finnish: konkari — person with long experience
• French: vétéran — person with long experience
• Galician: vedraño — person with long experience
• Georgian: ვეტერანი (veṭerani) — person with long experience
• German: Veteran — person with long experience
• Greek: βετεράνος (veterános) — person with long experience
• Greek: παλαίμαχος (palaímachos) — person with long experience
• Hebrew: וָתִיק (vatíq) — person with long experience
• Hungarian: obsitos — person with long experience
• Ido: veterano — person with long experience
• Irish: ársa — person with long experience
• Italian: veterano — person with long experience
• Japanese: ベテラン (beteran) — person with long experience
• Korean: 베테랑 (beterang) — person with long experience
• Persian: کهنهکار (kohne-kâr) — person with long experience
• Persian: کارکشته (kâr-košte) — person with long experience
• Polish: weteran — person with long experience
• Polish: weteranka — person with long experience
• Portuguese: veterano — person with long experience
• Russian: ветера́н (veterán) — person with long experience
• Spanish: veterano — person with long experience
• Spanish: lobo de mar — person with long experience
• Sranan Tongo: stonfutu — person with long experience
• Swahili: mkale — person with long experience
• Swedish: veteran — person with long experience
• Yakut: бэтэрээн (betereen) — person with long experience
• Arabic: مُحَارِب قَدِيم (muḥārib qadīm) — old soldier
• Armenian: վետերան (veteran) — old soldier
• Azerbaijani: veteran — old soldier
• Azerbaijani: qazi — old soldier
• Belarusian: ветэра́н (vjeterán) — old soldier
• Belarusian: вэтэра́н (veterán) — old soldier
• Bulgarian: ветера́н (veterán) — old soldier
• Catalan: veterà — old soldier
• Chinese Mandarin: 老兵 (lǎobīng) — old soldier
• Chinese Mandarin: 老將 /老将 (lǎojiàng) — old soldier
• Chinese Mandarin: 退伍軍人 /退伍军人 (tuìwǔ jūnrén) — old soldier
• Czech: veterán — old soldier
• Danish: veteran — old soldier
• Dutch: veteraan — old soldier
• Dutch: oud-strijder — old soldier
• Finnish: sotaveteraani — old soldier
• Finnish: veteraani — old soldier
• French: vétéran — old soldier
• French: ancien combattant — old soldier
• French: ancien soldat — old soldier
• Galician: veterano — old soldier
• Georgian: ვეტერანი (veṭerani) — old soldier
• German: Veteran — old soldier
• German: Kriegsveteran — old soldier
• Greek: βετεράνος (veterános) — old soldier
• Greek: παλαίμαχος (palaímachos) — old soldier
• Irish: ársa — old soldier
• Italian: veterano — old soldier
• Italian: reduce — old soldier
• Japanese: 退役軍人 (taieki gunjin) — old soldier
• Japanese: 老兵 (rōhei) — old soldier
• Korean: 퇴역 군인 (toeyeok gunin) — old soldier
• Korean: 노병 (nobyeong) — old soldier
• Korean: 로병 (robyeong) — old soldier
• Latin: ēmeritus — old soldier
• Macedonian: ветеран (veteran) — old soldier
• Māori: pāraeroa — old soldier
• Māori: ika a Whiro — old soldier
• Maranao: minangolod — old soldier
• Navajo: siláołtsooí nilį́į́ ńtʼę́ʼę́ę — old soldier
• Navajo: naazbaaʼí — old soldier
• Navajo: siláołtsooídę́ę́ʼ nádzá — old soldier
• Persian: کهنهسرباز (kohne-sarbâz) — old soldier
• Polish: weteran — old soldier
• Polish: weteranka — old soldier
• Portuguese: veterano — old soldier
• Russian: ветера́н (veterán) — old soldier
• Serbo-Croatian: ветѐра̄н — old soldier
• Serbo-Croatian: vetèrān — old soldier
• Slovak: veterán — old soldier
• Slovene: veteran — old soldier
• Spanish: veterano — old soldier
• Swedish: veteran — old soldier
• Ukrainian: ветера́н (veterán) — old soldier
• Vietnamese: cựu binh — old soldier
• Vietnamese: lính cũ — old soldier
• Yakut: бэтэрээн (betereen) — old soldier