grown
adjUK /ɡɹəʊn/ · US /ɡɹoʊn/
Etymology From Middle English growen. Morphologically grow + -n.
1
Covered by growth; overgrown.
- What once was a farm was grown with trees.
2
US Of a person: adult.
- grown woman/man/adult
- Listen, I'm a grown woman, and I don't have time to deal with your petty teenage drama.
- Derived terms
25 terms
Empire-grown, full-grown, fully-grown, grass-grown, grownish, grown-up, grown-up-ness, grown-upness, half-grown, high-grown, home-grown, homegrown, ingrown, intergrown, lab-grown, liver-grown, lung-grown, milt-grown, moss-grown, mossgrown, pregrown, regrown, undergrown, ungrown, weedgrown