Gryffindor vs Adult - What's the difference?
gryffindor | adult |
(sometimes used attributively) A person bearing traits associated with (Gryffindor) house from the , including bravery, boldness, or an affinity for lions or the colours red and gold.
* 2011 , Cyrus Duff, "
* 2012 , Eloisa James, Paris in Love , Random House (2013), ISBN 9780812981902,
* 2013 , Patricia Briggs, Frost Burned , Berkley (2013), ISBN 9781101619650,
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English terms derived from Harry Potter
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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As nouns the difference between gryffindor and adult
is that gryffindor is (sometimes used attributively) a person bearing traits associated with (gryffindor) house from the , including bravery, boldness, or an affinity for lions or the colours red and gold 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.gryffindor
English
Noun
(wikipedia Gryffindor) (en noun)Which House? Harry Potter Helps Sort Presidential Field", Hartford Courant , 24 August 2011:
- Barack Obama, on the other hand, is a consummate Gryffindor . He comes across in interviews and speeches as someone who's truly kind and angry about the country's woes, though it's clear he doesn't recklessly allow this anger to cloud his decisions.
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- I pulled out a Gryffindor key chain I had been saving for just such an emergency, and she cheered up while telling me why she was definitely a Gryffindor and not a Slytherin.
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- I had just freed a man wearing a dark blue suit and a Gryffindor tie when Asil's shout made me turn to see Frost right on top of me.
adult
English
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,