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Definitions: Veteran |
VeteranAdjective1. Rendered competent through trial and experience; "troops seasoned in combat"; "a seasoned traveler"; "veteran steadiness"; "a veteran officer". 2. Relating to or characteristic of or available to a veteran or veterans; "veteran benefits". Noun1. A serviceman who has seen considerable active service; "the veterans laughed at the new recruits". 2. A person who has served in the armed forces. 3. An experienced person; someone who has given long service. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "veteran" was first used: 1509. (references) |
Synonyms: VeteranSynonyms: seasoned (adj), veteran(a) (adj), ex-serviceman (n), old hand (n), old stager (n), old-timer (n), stager (n), vet (n), veteran soldier (n), warhorse (n). (additional references) |
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Veteran, New York
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 99.7 km² (38.5 mi²). 99.5 km² (38.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.13% water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 3,271 people, 1,261 households, and 948 families residing in the town. The population density is 32.9/km² (85.1/mi²). There are 1,331 housing units at an average density of 13.4/km² (34.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 97.98% White, 0.43% African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.24% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.24% from other races, and 0.95% from two or more races. 0.86% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 1,261 households out of which 32.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.0% are married couples living together, 8.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 24.8% are non-families. 20.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.58 and the average family size is 2.96.
In the town the population is spread out with 25.0% under the age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 27.9% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 98.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 96.2 males.
The median income for a household in the town is $44,521, and the median income for a family is $50,972. Males have a median income of $31,490 versus $26,027 for females. The per capita income for the town is $20,522. 10.6% of the population and 6.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 15.9% are under the age of 18 and 2.6% are 65 or older.Veteran, Wyoming
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Warrior, soldier, fighting man, Amazon, man at arms, armigerent; campaigner, veteran; swordsman, sabreur, redcoat, military man, Rajput. |
Proficient | Veteran; old stager, old campaigner, old soldier, old file, old hand; man of business, man of the world. |
Veteran | Phrase: "superfluous lags the veteran on the stage". |
Noun: veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Veteran |
| English words defined with "veteran": seasoned ♦ To stand one's ground ♦ veteran soldier. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "veteran": 82243 ♦ ACHILLES, APPEALS REVIEWER, VETERAN ♦ ELIGIBILITY-AND-OCCUPANCY INTERVIEWER ♦ Geneva Print, Greg Olson ♦ liaison officer ♦ national insurance officer ♦ Period of military service, PREPAROLE-COUNSELING AIDE ♦ R. E. MORSE, rehabilitation officer ♦ sample data, service officer ♦ Veteran status, Veterans Administration, veterans' claims representative, VETERANS CONTACT REPRESENTATIVE, veterans' counselor, veterans' service officer ♦ Years of military service. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Veteran" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (an old stager, old timer, vet, veteran), German (old timer, veteran, vintage car), Romanian (old campaigner, old soldier, veteran), Serbo-Croatian (vet, veteran), Swedish (campaigner, old timer, Stager, vet, veteran, war horse). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Look here pal, I know you're a highly decorated veteran but- (Air America; writing credit: John Eskow) I have acted with octogenarians, dipsomaniacs, dope-fiends, amnesiacs, and veteran cars. (Simon and Laura; writing credit: Peter Blackmore; Alan Melville) | |
Tongue Twisters | What veteran ventriloquist whistles? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Ginza Veteran (1960) The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times Veteran (1914) Veteran Zouaves (1898) | |
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 | Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General John W. Handy, presents actor Chuck Norris with the "Veteran of the Year" award at the American Veteran awards show Dec. 12 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (P.; photo by Lou Hernandez).. |  | Indians representing various newspapers waving weapons of "abuse" and "misrepresentation" around tied up veteran with "soldier hating wigwam" in background.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Old Joe, the veteran fire horse.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Every man in this department of the Disabled American Veterans Idento Tag plant is a disabled war veteran at work assembling the miniature automobile license plates mailed every year to 30 million motorists. Proceeds finance the service program of the DAV.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | W.C. Round, Confederate veteran, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, wearing badge during celebration at Bull Run.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Washington, D.C. Band of 10th Veteran Reserve Corps.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Band of 10th Veteran Reserve Corps, Washington, D.C., April, 1865.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Battle-scarred veteran, Gettysburg.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Veteran.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two veteran steelworkers, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The scarred veteran was afraid of the old maid. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If you're a veteran, the VA can help pay for treatment or provide other benefits. (references) | |
Existing Federal food and food subsidy programs and federally regulated facilities for infants, children, low-income populations, and the elderly in the Department of Health and Human Services, the Veteran Administration, the Department of Defense and other agencies should ensure achievement of optimal calcium intake for program recipients. (references) | ||
The virus grows very poorly in laboratory cells and does not infect animals other than man. Recently, however, the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) launched a nationwide trial the Shingles Prevention Study to study an experimental shingles vaccine (see the Information Resources card in the back pocket of this brochure for information on the VA trial). (references) | ||
Business | For the financial year ending June 2000, Singapore's veteran department store, Robinsons, reported a 72.3% increase in full-year net profit to US$23 million and a 19.2% increase in turnover to US$177 million. (references) | |
Economic History | Papua New Guinea | The last national election was held in June 1997. The election was characterized by a large turnover in sitting members of Parliament and a number of veteran politicians, including former Prime Ministers Sir Julius Chan and Pias Wingti, lost their seats. (references) |
China | The ideological struggle between more pragmatic, veteran party officials and the radicals re-emerged with a vengeance in late 1975. Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, and three close Cultural Revolution associates (later dubbed the "Gang of Four") launched a media campaign against Deng. (references) | |
China | A month after Mao's death, Hua, backed by the PLA, arrested Jiang Qing and other members of the "Gang of Four." After extensive deliberations, the Chinese Communist Party leadership reinstated Deng Xiaoping to all of his previous posts at the 11th Party Congress in August 1977. Deng then led the effort to place government control in the hands of veteran party officials opposed to the radical excesses of the previous two decades. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | In September 2000, after receiving an anonymous tip, police arrested a Marondera war veteran and charged him with murder. (references) |
Zimbabwe | On December 25, MDC supporters reportedly killed Willis Dhliwayo, a war veteran and ZANU-PF supporter, near the town of Chipinge and left his body on a road near the Mount Selinda border post. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | There were confirmed reports that in Budiriro, a suburb of Harare, war veteran groups frequently used a medical clinic belonging to former National Liberation War Veterans Association leader and M.P., Dr. Chenjerai Hunzvi, to torture members of the MDC before the 2000 parliamentary elections. (references) | |
Political Rights | Peru | In a vote requiring only a simple majority, the Congress voted to unseat the veteran legislators and, in effect, prohibit them from holding office for 10 years. (references) |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | Joseph Chinotimba, a prominent war veteran leader, appeared to lead the organization. (references) |
Zimbabwe | After both local and international observers criticized the tactics as extortion, the Government arrested two local war veteran leaders, who quickly were released on bail. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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John Kerry | Well, I'm very troubled by it. For the first few years, there was a sort of realignment because a lot of the veteran population had moved to the south and southwest of the country. So there was an initial redistribution. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Daniels, the veteran watchdog organization, the National Taxpayers Union, doesn't quite accept the president's posture as the guardian of fiscal responsibility. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The honest veteran has nothing to fear from such a scrutiny, while the fraudulent claimant will be detected and the public Treasury relieved to an amount, I have reason to believe, far greater than has heretofore been suspected. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We have focused the VA health care system in the needs of the service-connected disabled veteran. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Through the words of his loving daughter, who is here with us today, a D-Day veteran has shown us the meaning of this day far better than any President can. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Lucius Wright is a teacher in the Jackson, Mississippi public school system, a Viet Nam veteran. |
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| "Veteran" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 55.35% of the time. "Veteran" is used about 662 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 55.35% | 367 | 14,753 |
| Noun (singular) | 44.19% | 293 | 16,984 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.45% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 662 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Veteran, WY |
Expressions using "veteran": veteran car ♦ veteran soldier ♦ war veteran ♦ wounded veteran. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "veteran": veteran-cycle, veteran-dominated. | |
Ending with "veteran": ex-veteran, non-veteran. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
veteran administration | 3,006 |
veteran | 1,321 |
veteran affair | 1,282 |
viet nam veteran | 1,003 |
veteran benefit | 647 |
veteran hospital | 523 |
veteran stadium | 483 |
veteran of foreign war | 238 |
disabled american veteran | 221 |
veteran administration hospital | 171 |
benefit disabled veteran | 153 |
veteran day | 139 |
world war 2 veteran | 129 |
veteran loan | 114 |
veteran home loan | 105 |
son of confederate veteran | 97 |
affair canada veteran | 92 |
veteran benefit administration | 90 |
veteran association | 88 |
texas veteran | 87 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "veteran"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veteran (an old stager, old timer, vet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محنك (experienced, skilful, skillful, worldly wise), محارب قديم (old sweat), متمرس (experienced, know one's onions, long-practiced, salted, sophisticated, worldly wise), سياسي محنك, جندي عريق (vet), شجرة معمرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стар (aged, back, grey headed, moth-eaten, old, old age, stale, used), врял и кипял, ветеран (dugout, old war-horse, vet), опитен (adept, capable, consummate, empiric, empirical, experienced, experimental, expert, good, grey, laboratory, old, old hand, perfect, pilot, practised, proficient, ripe, scientific, skilful, skilled, skillful, sophisticated, thorough-paced, versed, whizbang), многогодишен (perpetual), бивш фронтовак, бивш военнослужещ, поборник (apostle, combatant, vindicator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 老資 , 老兵 , 退伍軍人 , 退伍军人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | veterán (vet), zkušený èlovìk (old hand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | veteraan, oudgediende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | veterano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کهنه کار (Old), کهنه سرباز (Vet), کارزموده , سربازسابق . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | veteraani, sotaveteraani. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ancien combattant (vet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Veteran (old timer, vintage car). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βετεράνοσ (vet), παλαίμαχοσ (vet), απόστρατοσ (vet), απόμαχοσ (pensioner, vet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ותיק (old, old hand, old timer, senior, vet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | öreg (gaffer, gossipy old woman, long in the tooth, old, old hat, old man, pater). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kawakan (experienced). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | veterano (old hand, old soldier, old timer, oldster, seasoned, vet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 百戦錬磨 (be schooled by adversity in many battles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふる ぬき (old badger, old fox, oldtimer, schemer), ろうれ"か (expert), ろう"う (experienced, meritorious deed, polite address for elderly nobleman, seasoned), ろうしゅ (old wine, past master), "へい (old hand, old soldier), ""う (crying out, man of experience, old-timer, proclaiming), "ぶし (feudal warrior, fist, old hand, old soldier, samurai, species of tree resembling a magnolia), ろうれ" (experienced, labour union), "うぐ" (ex-soldier, reservist), たたきあ' (working one's way up), ふるかぶ (old-timer, senior), ふるつわもの (old hand, old soldier), ひゃくせ"れ"ま (be schooled by adversity in many battles), きょう"う (arrogance, champion, collation, contend with, crying aloud, examining and comparing, pride, quarrel), ベテラン , ベデラン , "うのもの (brave warrior, past master, very strong person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 노병. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shenn sidoor (an old warhorse, old trooper), shenn 'eniagh, shenn (aged, ancient, antiquarian, archaic, auld, consecrated, elderly, ex, former, inveterate, long-standing, old, olden, old-established, senile, stale, time-fusty, vintage, worn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | veterano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eteranvay veterano (antediluvian, campaigner, captain, old timer, vet, war dog, war horse). (various references) veteran (old campaigner, old soldier). (various references) ветеран (old campaigner, old hand, war horse). (various references) veteranski (ex service), veteran (vet), stari vojnik, stari ratnik, stari (old-established), stara osoba, islužen (worn out). (various references) veterano (campaigner, old soldier, old stager, old timer, Stager). (various references) veteran (campaigner, old timer, Stager, vet, war horse). (various references) tecrübeli kimse (old campaigner, old hand, old stager), tecrübeli (experienced, handsome, old, practised, sophisticated, versed, versed in, vet), kıdemli (elder, highly placed, prior, senior, vet), eski kurt (old hand, vet), eski asker (vet), eski (ancient, archaic, auld, bygone, crusted, cut and dried, disused, earlier, early, erstwhile, ex, ex-, former, immemorial, late, obsolete, of long standing, of old, old, old time, old timer, olden, onetime, out of date, passe, passee, previous, prior, quondam, secondhand, sometime, trite, used, vet), emektar (old servant, vet). (various references) weteran (r). (various references) ветеран (old timer, vet), бувалий (hard-headed, leery, weather beaten, weathered), досвідчений (accomplished, adept, experienced, expert, old, perite, proficient, salted, skilled, sophisticate, sophisticated, versed), довголітній. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vetera, veterani, veteranis, veteranus, veterem, veteres, veteri, veteribus, veteris, veterum, vetus, vetustiores, vetustissima. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "veteran": veterans. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "veteran": nonveteran. (additional references) | |
Words containing "veteran": nonveterans. (additional references) | |
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"Veteran" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aeterna, aeternam, Tveteras, Veerman, veretan, verteran, veterane, veteren, veterian, veteris, vetran, Vettriano. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "veteran" (pronounced ve"terun or ve"trun) |
| 4 | -t er u n | intrauterine, uterine. |
| 3 | -er u n | cephalosporin, mandarin, margarine, nitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, saccharin, tamarin. |
| 4 | -t r u n | citron, doctrine, intron, matron, patron. |
| 3 | -r u n | apron, aspirin, Baron, barren, brethren, Buran, cauldron, Chevron, children, fibrin, foreign, garron, giron, grandchildren, heron, Marron, octahedron, perron, Philodendron, polyhedron, rhododendron, saffron, schoolchildren, siren, sovereign, sovran, squadron, stepchildren, tetrahedron, Warren. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nervate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: entera, neater, tavern, venter. | |
-2 letters: antre, arete, avert, eaten, eater, enate, enter, event, evert, nerve, never, ranee, raven, reave, rente, revet, terne, trave, treen, veena, venae. | |
-3 letters: ante, aver, earn, eave, erne, etna, even, ever, nave, near, neat, neve, rant, rate, rave, rent, rete, tare, tarn, tear, teen, tern, tree, vane, veer, vena, vent, vera, vert. | |
-4 letters: ane, ant, are, art, ate, ave, ear, eat, era, ere, ern, eta, eve, nae, nee, net, ran, rat, ree, ret, rev, tae, tan, tar, tav, tea, tee, ten, van, var, vat, vee, vet. | |
-5 letters: ae, an, ar, at, en, er, et, na, ne, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-n-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: antevert, averment, enervate, levanter, overneat, relevant, renovate, revenant, taverner, venerate, veterans. | |
+2 letters: adventure, advertent, anteverts, averments, denervate, enervated, enervates, innervate, intervale, invertase, levanters, overeaten, overtaken, prevalent, ravelment, renovated, renovates, revenants, revertant, taverners, tervalent, venerated, venerates, venerator, veratrine. | |
+3 letters: adventured, adventurer, adventures, advertence, advertency, anteverted, aventurine, cantilever, contravene, covenanter, denervated, denervates, enervating, enervation, generative, gravestone, harvestmen, innervated, innervates, interleave, intervales, interweave, invertases, inveteracy, inveterate, irrelevant, nonveteran, overbeaten, overeating, overmantel, prevalents, ravagement, ravelments, rejuvenate, relevantly, renovative, revealment, revelation, revertants, transverse, travertine, uncreative, untraveled, vegetarian, venerating, veneration, venerators, veratrines, veterinary. | |
+4 letters: adventurers, adventuress, advertences, advertently, alternative, anteverting, argumentive, aventurines, bereavement, cantilevers, contravened, contravener, contravenes, covenanters, denervating, denervation, denigrative, depravement, enervations, enteroviral, enumerative, everlasting, evidentiary, exonerative, germinative, governorate, gravestones, inadvertent, inoperative, integrative, interactive, interleaved, interleaves, intervalley, interweaved, interweaves, menservants, neuroactive, noncreative, nonreactive, nonrelative, nonrelevant, nonveterans, outmaneuver, overanxiety, overbeating, overearnest, overgarment, overheating, overinflate, overmantels, overpayment, overplanted, overtrained, penetrative, personative, prevalently, preventable, privateness, ravagements, reinnervate, rejuvenated, rejuvenates, rejuvenator, reservation, revaccinate, revealments, revelations, reverberant, reverential, servantless, terminative, tetravalent, transceiver, transverses, travertines, unassertive, underactive, unharvested, untraversed, vegetarians, venerations, veratridine, vinaigrette. | |
+5 letters: abortiveness, advertencies, aggrievement, alternatives, animadverted, anticreative, antitakeover, asseverating, asseveration, bereavements, cantilevered, consecrative, conservative, conservatize, contraveners, creativeness, degenerative, denervations, depravements, everlastings, eviscerating, evisceration, extravagance, extraversion, fermentative, galvanometer, governmental, governorates, inadvertence, inadvertency, interleaving, intervalleys, intervillage, interweaving, invertebrate, inveteracies, inveterately, irrelevantly, misadventure, nonassertive, nonoperative, nonrelatives, outmaneuvers, overgarments, overinflated, overinflates, overornament, overpayments, overreacting, overreaction, overstrained, overtreating, overwatering, peradventure, photoengrave, presentative, preservation, preventative, privateering, reactiveness, reevaluating, reevaluation, regenerative, reinnervated, reinnervates, reinvigorate, rejuvenating, rejuvenation, rejuvenators, remunerative, renunciative, reservations, revaccinated, revaccinates, revegetating, revegetation, seronegative, transceivers, transversely, transvestite, unadvertised, venerability, ventromedial, veratridines, verticalness, vespertilian, veterinarian, veterinaries, vinaigrettes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 74 65 72 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . - . .-. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e t e r a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 0074 0065 0072 0061 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56718671846780 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Cities 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Orthography 22. Bibliography |
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