Dilapidated vs Veteran - What's the difference?
dilapidated | veteran | Related terms |
Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect
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.
Dilapidated is a related term of veteran.
As a verb dilapidated
is .As an adjective dilapidated
is having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect.As a noun veteran is
veteran.dilapidated
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* beat * beat up * beaten up * bedraggled * broken-down * ramshackle * ruinous * rundown * tatterdemalion * tumbledownveteran
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.}}
