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Gryffindor vs Adult - What's the difference?

gryffindor | adult |

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)
  • (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, " 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.
  • * 2012 , Eloisa James, Paris in Love , Random House (2013), ISBN 9780812981902, page 167:
  • 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.
  • * 2013 , Patricia Briggs, Frost Burned , Berkley (2013), ISBN 9781101619650, unnumbered page:
  • 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.
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  • English terms derived from Harry Potter

    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)