Adjective

(-)

Having had long experience, practice, or service.

* Macaulay

The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veteran diplomatists and courtiers.

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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 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.}}

Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)

Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct .

No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.

* Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.

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Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system
writes in there'' as two words but ''therein'' as one word might be taken as suggest-
ing that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern
English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a
few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as ''thereby .

No longer in existence; having died out.

The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.

(vulcanology) No longer actively erupting.

Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct .