Roget's Thesaurus

#130. Veteran

Nouns

veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard etc. 501. preadamite, Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr; elders; forefathers etc. (paternity) 166.

Phrases

superfluous lags the veteran on the stage [Johnson].