Borstal vs Adult - What's the difference?
borstal | adult |
(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.
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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 .
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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)- You have juvenile courts. Do you have borstal institutions for juveniles?
Synonyms
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* (wikipedia "borstal")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,