Aged vs Veteran - What's the difference?
aged | veteran | Related terms |
(uncountable) Old people, collectively.
(age)
Having the age of. (primarily non-US)
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* 2012 March 22, Amy Chozick, “
A person with long experience of a particular activity.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service.
Having had long experience, practice, or service.
* Macaulay
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.
Aged is a related term of veteran.
As an adjective aged
is .As a noun veteran is
veteran.aged
English
Alternative forms
* (disyllabic only)Noun
(head)Verb
(head)Preposition
(English prepositions)- Aged 18, he had no idea what would happen next.
Court of Special Sessions”, in The New York Times :
- John Mathews, aged about 18, stood at the bar with his hands in his pockets, alike indifferent to a verdict of acquittal or guilty.
As Young Lose Interest in Cars, G.M. Turns to MTV for Help”, in The New York Times :
- Forty-six percent of drivers aged 18 to 24 said they would choose Internet access over owning a car, according to the research firm Gartner.
Anagrams
* *veteran
English
(wikipedia veteran)Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Derived terms
* Veterans DayAdjective
(-)- The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veteran diplomatists and courtiers.
citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
