grown

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grown

advanced in growth: a grown boy; arrived at full growth or maturity; produced or cultivated in a certain way or place: The corn was grown in Kansas.

Not to be confused with:

groan – a deep, mournful sound of pain or grief: the groans of a woman in labor; a grating or creaking sound due to burdening with a great weight: the groan of a heavy-laden ship navigating a turbulent ocean

grown

(grōn)

Past participle of grow.

adj.

1. Having full growth; mature: a grown woman.

2. Produced or cultivated in a certain way or place: locally grown produce.

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grown

(ɡrəʊn)

adj

a. developed or advanced: fully grown.

b. (in combination): half-grown.

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grown

(groʊn)

adj.

1. arrived at full growth or maturity; adult: a grown man.

2. pp. of grow.

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Adj.

grown - (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman"

adult, full-grown, fully grown, grownup, big

animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

mature - having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell"

grown

adjective mature, adult, grown-up, fully-grown Dad, I'm a grown woman. I know what I'm doing.

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grown

adjective

Having reached full growth and development:

adult, big, developed, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, grown-up, mature, ripe.

Idiom: of age.

Translations

ناضِج، بالِغ

dospělý

voksen

erwachsen

adulto

adulte

fullvaxta

adulto p.p. di to grow

odrasel

yetişkin

成年的成熟的

grown

[grəʊn]

A. PP of grow

B. ADJ (also fully grown) → adulto, maduro

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

grown

[ˈgrəʊn ˈgrəʊn]

pp of grow

adj → adultegrown-up [ˈgrəʊnʌp]

n (gen) → adulte mf; (word used by children) → grande personne f

[ˌgrəʊnˈʌp] modif

(= adult) → adulte

(= mature) → mature

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

grown

ptp of grow

adj → erwachsen; fully grown → ausgewachsen

grown

grown-over

adj → überwachsen; garden also → überwuchert

grown-up

adj → erwachsen; clothes, book → für Erwachsene, für Große (inf); they have a grown family → sie haben schon erwachsene Kinder

n → Erwachsene(r) mf

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grown

[grəʊn]

1. pp of grow

2. adj (also fully grown) → adulto/a, grande
he's a grown man → è un adulto

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

grow

(grəu) – past tense grew (gruː) : past participle grown – verb

1. (of plants) to develop. Carrots grow well in this soil.

2. to become bigger, longer etc. My hair has grown too long; Our friendship grew as time went on.

3. to cause or allow to grow. He has grown a beard.

4. (with into) to change into, in becoming mature. Your daughter has grown into a beautiful woman.

5. to become. It's growing dark.

ˈgrower noun

a person who grows (plants etc). a tomato-grower.

grown adjective

adult. a grown man; fully grown.

growth (-θ) noun

1. the act or process of growing, increasing, developing etc. the growth of trade unionism.

2. something that has grown. a week's growth of beard.

3. the amount by which something grows. to measure the growth of a plant.

4. something unwanted which grows. a cancerous growth.

ˈgrown-ˈup noun

an adult.

grown-up adjective

mature; adult; fully grown. Her children are grown up now; a grown-up daughter.

grow on

to gradually become liked. I didn't like the painting at first, but it has grown on me.

grow up

to become an adult. I'm going to be an engine-driver when I grow up.

grown

pp de grow

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All of our Princes and Rulers have grown upon this one bush from time immemorial."

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And when I grow up, I'll write one--but I'm grown up now,' she added in a sorrowful tone; `at least there's no room to grow up any more HERE.'

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The most wonderful fairy tales grow out of that which is reality; were that not the case, you know, my magnificent Elderbush could not have grown out of the tea-pot." And then she took the little boy out of bed, laid him on her bosom, and the branches of the Elder Tree, full of flowers, closed around her.

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"Why, Anne, how you've grown!" she said, almost unbelievingly.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla.

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And when she had grown up her father said: 'We will get her married.'

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Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged concentration on some one thought.

Pierre looked silently and searchingly into Prince Andrew's face, which had grown much older.

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Then there were the dogs, puppies growing up like himself, and grown dogs that did not look so large and formidable as the memory pictures he retained of them.

He walked less softly among the grown dogs; his attitude toward them was less compromising.

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The circle or double hedge that I had made was not only firm and entire, but the stakes which I had cut out of some trees that grew thereabouts were all shot out and grown with long branches, as much as a willow-tree usually shoots the first year after lopping its head.

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"Our work is done," whispered the Elves, and with blessings on the two fair flowers, they flew away to other homes;--to a blind old man who dwelt alone with none to love him, till through long years of darkness and of silent sorrow the heart within had grown dim and cold.