What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Borstal vs Adult - What's the difference?

borstal | adult |

As nouns the difference between borstal and adult

is that borstal is (historical) any of the prisons set up in britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983 while adult is a fully grown human or animal.

As an adjective adult is

fully grown.

As a verb adult is

to (cause to) be or become an.

borstal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.
  • (British, Ireland) Any institution which provides education to young offenders.
  • * 2004 , August 3, Speaker of the Kenyan National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record , Hansard, page 3126
  • You have juvenile courts. Do you have borstal institutions for juveniles?
  • * '>citation
  • Synonyms

    * reformatory

    Anagrams

    * blastor

    adult

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fully grown human or animal.
  • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Fully grown.
  • an adult human, animal, or plant
  • Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
  • adult clothes
  • Containing material of an explicit sexual nature
  • adult content
    an adult movie

    Synonyms

    * (fully grown) big, fully grown, grown up * (unsuitable for children) blue, dirty, lewd, obscene

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To (cause to) be or become an .
  • * 1974 , Occasional Papers (Syracuse University), issues 42-46, page 5:
  • Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted "; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five,
  • * 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:
  • The process of adulting children,
  • * (seemoreCites)