Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Veteran

Nouns
  • veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard
  • grandfather, grandsire
  • grandam
  • gaffer, gammer
  • crone
  • pantaloon
  • sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian
  • old stager
  • dotard etc. Fool. preadamite, Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr
  • elders
  • forefathers etc. (paternity) Paternity.
Phrases
  • superfluous lags the veteran on the superfluous lags the veteran on the stage" [Johnson].