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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grown
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grown fond of
▪ I’d grown fond of the place and it was difficult to leave.
grown...fond of
▪ Over the years we’ve grown very fond of each other.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
▪ Two methods can be used, both requiring a healthy and fully grown leaf from your selected plant.
▪ Elsewhere fully grown trees were uprooted, and were found laid out in the direction of the blast.
▪ A fully grown woman, the muscles on her arms and legs as thick and obvious as a man's.
▪ The initial stages of training are not exactly kind but there is no other way of breaking a fully grown elephant.
▪ It is the largest living bird - a fully grown male weighing 140 kilograms and reaching 2.5 metres in height.
▪ I would like to put a fully grown male in with her.
▪ A kitten requires three times more nourishment, relative to body weight, than a fully grown cat.
▪ All the corpses he examined were those of adults - of fully grown men.
organically
▪ A farming ideal too, organically grown produce, means the family are self sufficient.
▪ Fans of organic wine will be pleased to see two new choices made from organically grown grapes.
■ NOUN
man
▪ Not one grown man, aristocrat or peasant, is worthy of respect when you really know him.
▪ Take Reg Holdsworth for instance: grown men don't act so stupid.
▪ Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.
▪ The Hall of Power - where little boys and grown men delight in pressing buttons - is vastly popular.
▪ He was a grown man, in full possession of his civil rights.
▪ And there's a grown man sitting on the floor over there.
▪ People divorced, left each other - grown men and women who reached the decision to part.
▪ He had been a grown man with a small but independent income when he had taken Minnie instead of her to wife.
woman
▪ She hunted herself, putting aside all those pictures in which she appeared - not as child but as a grown woman.
▪ There's a quasi-religious, Gospel feel about it all as grown women clap and cheer.
▪ A fully grown woman, the muscles on her arms and legs as thick and obvious as a man's.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had been a grown man with a small but independent income when he had taken Minnie instead of her to wife.
▪ People divorced, left each other - grown men and women who reached the decision to part.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grown

Grown \Grown\, p. p. of Grow.

Grown

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.

  2. To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.

    Winter began to grow fast on.
    --Knolles.

    Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus.
    --Shak.

  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.

    Where law faileth, error groweth.
    --Gower.

  4. To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.

    For his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary.
    --Byron.

  5. To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

    Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow.
    --Shak.

    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.

    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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grown

late 14c., past participle adjective from grow (v.).

Wiktionary
grown
  1. Covered by growth; overgrown. v

  2. (past participle of grow English)

WordNet
grown

See grow

grown

adj. (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman" [syn: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grownup]

grow
  1. v. pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry" [syn: turn]

  2. become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain; "The problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew fast"

  3. increase in size by natural process; "Corn doesn't grow here"; "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"

  4. cause to grow or develop; "He grows vegetables in his backyard"

  5. develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: mature, maturate]

  6. come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up]

  7. cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: raise, farm, produce]

  8. come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts" [syn: develop, produce, get, acquire]

  9. grow emotionally or mature; "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior" [syn: develop]

  10. become attached by or as if by the process of growth; "The tree trunks had grown together"

  11. [also: grown, grew]

Wikipedia
Grown (album)

Grown is the third Korean studio album (fifth overall) by South Korean boy band 2PM. The album was released in digital format on May 6, 2013.

Grown (Little Mix song)

"Grown" is a song by Little Mix that appears as the sixth track on their third album Get Weird. It was released on 30 October 2015.

Usage examples of "grown".

Onol of Aceta, to imagine myself a grown man with a job to do, not in a business suit in the rusty dusty America of 1964, but a man with a sword and diadem, inspecting the fabulous mines of Aceta, the City on the Mountain, on a vast, faraway world you could see most nights as a brilliant diamond gleam in the sky, Onol of Jupiter.

For all that Philadelphia had grown and changed, it was familiar territory for Adams, filled with memories.

The excavation was not going well and the Aedile had grown bored with it before it was halfway done.

To an Aeolian Harp The winds have grown articulate in thee, And voiced again the wail of ancient woe That smote upon the winds of long ago: The cries of Trojan women as they flee, The quivering moan of pale Andromache, Now lifted loud with pain and now brought low.

They were fine beasts of the Afrikander breed, that after a long rest had grown quite fat and strong.

By 1993 the JTTF had grown to include forty investigators and agents from the FBI, NYPD, the INS, the FAA, the ATF, and the U.

At this point the JTTF had grown to more than forty members, including agents from the Secret Service, Treasury, INS, DEA, and the New York State Police, along with NYPD detectives like Lou Napoli.

A resolute Alabamian, Hugo Black had grown to embody the belief that the Bill of Rights should apply to every American regardless of color or position.

What the average Southlander cares about is whether those ash bows that are so good for hunting and those silk scarves the women love and those great cheeses and ales that come out of Varfleet and those healing plants grown on the Streleheim can find their way south to them!

Their looks had grown more dubious when I explained that the Golden Horn was in Alsatia, beside the Fleet River.

The two women had taken an instant dislike to one another upon meeting many years before and that dislike had grown steadily worse since Amala had become the consort of Commodore Lexis, the OIC of the Ministry of Public Education.

Wherever the Mafia had grown and prospered since Prohibition, these other savages were there as well, ever clinging to the shadows as the more flamboyant amici filled headlines and mortuaries, lending their advice and financial acumen where it was lacking in their Mafia comrades, Siegel, Buchalter, Cohen, Lansky.

A Central Planning Council, on which he sat, determined the proper economic mix and crops grown, coordinating with other Anchors as well, but otherwise the farms were communally held and run affairs, autonomous and sharing in the profits by getting what they wanted or needed from other communes in exchange for what they produced.

She knew more than the average person about druidism, having grown up in Wales near the Isle of Anglesey, which had once been a druid stronghold.

It is calculated that ever grown lion in South Africa kills for food, every year, between 200 and 300 harmless animals, and each one of which is as much entitled as the lion to the happiness of existence.