Adjective

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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)

Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.

I think her traditional values are antiquated .

Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.

In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.