Adult vs Senior - What's the difference?
adult | senior |
Fully grown.
Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
Containing material of an explicit sexual nature
To (cause to) be or become an .
* 1974 , Occasional Papers (Syracuse University), issues 42-46, page 5:
* 2013 , Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
* 2013 , Ewa Rewers, The Contradictions of Urban Art (ISBN 364390374X), page 84:
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Older; superior
Higher in rank, dignity, or office.
(US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.
(obsolete, Biblical) An elder or presbyter in the early Church.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts IV:
Someone older than someone else (with possessive).
(US) A final-year student at a high school or university.
As nouns the difference between adult and senior
is that adult is a fully grown human or animal while senior is someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.As adjectives the difference between adult and senior
is that adult is fully grown while senior is older; superior.As a verb adult
is to (cause to) be or become an adult.adult
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Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- an adult human, animal, or plant
- adult clothes
- adult content
- an adult movie
Synonyms
* (fully grown) big, fully grown, grown up * (unsuitable for children) blue, dirty, lewd, obsceneVerb
(en verb)- Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted "; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five,
- The process of adulting children,
External links
* * ----senior
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Alternative forms
* seniour (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- senior citizen
- senior''' member; '''senior counsel
Antonyms
* juniorNoun
(en noun)- Then Peter full of the holy goost sayd unto them. Ye ruelars of the people, and seniours of israhel [...].
- He was four years her senior .
