What is another word for "veteran"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "veteran": acrobat, adept, admirable, all, blade, business, campaigner, centenarian, chef, clean, conjuror, connoisseur, crack, cracksman, crone, cuisine, cunning, dab, dabster, dead, deceiver, donna, dotard, experienced, expert, eye, fellow, fiddle, file, first, funambulist, gaffer, gammer, genius, good, grandam, grandfather, grandsire, graybeard, gun.