Protestant vs Puritan

Puritan vs Protestant

Protestant and Puritan both are nouns.

Protestant is an adjective but Puritan is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Protestant	Yes	Yes	No	No
Puritan	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Puritan is a hyponym of Protestant; that is, Puritan is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Protestant:

Protestant: an adherent of Protestantism
Puritan: a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship

Other hyponyms of Protestant include WASP, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Anabaptist, Christian Scientist, Baptist, Congregationalist, chapelgoer, Nonconformist, Anglican, Episcopalian, fundamentalist, Jehovah's Witness, Latter-Day Saint, Mormon, Methodist, Orangeman, Pentecostal, Pentecostalist, Presbyterian.

Protestant (noun)	Puritan (noun)
the Protestant churches and denominations collectively	a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
an adherent of Protestantism

Protestant (adjective)	Puritan (adjective)
of or relating to Protestants or Protestantism

Difference between Protestant and Puritan

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