veteran
Roget category 130
1. Words expressing abstract relations› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time
#130.
Veteran
noun
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.
phrase
superfluous lags the veteran on the superfluous lags the veteran on the stage"
[Johnson].
The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.
Bold numbers signify related Roget categories. A dagger symbol (†) indicates archaic words and expressions no longer in common use.
debug info: 0.0012