'Grown' definitions:
Definition of 'grown'
From: WordNet
adjective
(of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman" [syn: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup]
Definition of 'Grown'
From: GCIDE
- Grow \Grow\ (gr[=o]), v. i. [imp. Grew (gr[udd]); p. p. {Grown (gr[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Growing.] [AS. gr[=o]wan; akin to D. groeijen, Icel. gr[=o]a, Dan. groe, Sw. gro. Cf. Green, Grass.]
- 1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue. [1913 Webster]
- Winter began to grow fast on. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
- Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To spring up and come to maturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries. [1913 Webster]
- Where law faileth, error groweth. --Gower. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale. [1913 Webster]
- For his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To become attached or fixed; to adhere. [1913 Webster]
- Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Growing cell, or Growing slide, a device for preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope.
- Grown over, covered with a growth.
- To grow out of, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem; to result from. [1913 Webster]
- These wars have grown out of commercial considerations. --A. Hamilton.
- To grow up, to arrive at full stature or maturity; as, grown up children.
- To grow together, to close and adhere; to become united by growth, as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. --Howells.
- Syn: To become; increase; enlarge; augment; improve; expand; extend. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'grown'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adult,
- assembled,
- big,
- blooming,
- blossoming,
- brought about,
- budding,
- built,
- burgeoning,
- cast,
- caused,
- constructed,
- crafted,
- created,
- crescent,
- custom,
- custom-built,
- custom-made,
- developed,
- done,
- effectuated,
- executed,
- extracted,
- fabricated,
- fashioned,
- florescent,
- flourishing,
- flowering,
- forged,
- formed,
- full-blown,
- full-fledged,
- full-grown,
- fully developed,
- gathered,
- growing,
- grown-up,
- handcrafted,
- handmade,
- harvested,
- homemade,
- homespun,
- hypertrophied,
- machine-made,
- machined,
- made,
- made to order,
- man-made,
- manufactured,
- marriable,
- marriageable,
- mass-produced,
- mature,
- matured,
- maturescent,
- milled,
- mined,
- molded,
- nubile,
- of age,
- of marriageable age,
- old,
- overdeveloped,
- overgrown,
- performed,
- prefab,
- prefabricated,
- processed,
- produced,
- put together,
- raised,
- rank,
- ready-for-wear,
- ready-formed,
- ready-made,
- ready-prepared,
- ready-to-wear,
- refined,
- ripe,
- ripened,
- shaped,
- smelted,
- sprouting,
- thriving,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-made