grown

[ grohn ]

adjective

1. advanced in growth:

   a grown boy.

2. arrived at full growth or maturity; adult:

   a grown man.

verb

1. past participle of grow.

grown

/ ɡrəʊn /

adjective

1. 1. developed or advanced

      fully grown

   2. ( in combination )

      half-grown

Other Words From

• half-grown adjective
• un·grown adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of grown¹

First recorded in 1325–75, for the adjective

Example Sentences

The students, it turns out, had many of the same questions as the grown-ups.

From Washington Post

Drew Bolender is a grown man who likes weightlifting, video games and the band Green Day.

From ProPublica

To me, the dynamics of our game resemble how grown children balance their desire to stay close to their parents with their desire to strike out on their own.

From Quanta Magazine

I mean, these are grown-ass men who get educated and make grown-ass decisions.

From Freakonomics

In some cases, the platform has tripled daily traffic, and, what’s more improbable, grown ad revenue by over 30% this year.

From Digiday

But since those rosy scenarios were first floated, the California political scene has grown more crowded.

From The Daily Beast

In January 2014, a lifelong District of Columbia parks employee, Medric Mills, collapsed while walking with his grown daughter.

From The Daily Beast

It has grown from a rotten root—striving to replace human judgment with detailed dictates.

From The Daily Beast

“It was not merely the work in which he had constantly grown happier that he saw taken from him,” Howells notes.

From The Daily Beast

Full-grown men play-acting at being hurt when absolutely nothing happened.

From The Daily Beast

As there are still many varieties of the plant grown in America, so there doubtless was when cultivated by the Indians.

From Project Gutenberg

Here is a chair, Monsieur Arden; but you can hardly see it until your eyes have grown a little accustomed to our crpuscula.

From Project Gutenberg

Where the outside conditions are not very favourable, practically all the British species may be grown with ease under glass.

From Project Gutenberg

It was true that his sight had grown accustomed to the obscurity, for he could now see the baron's features much more distinctly.

From Project Gutenberg

It may be fifty or a hundred centuries since men, although they were fully grown up, still went on trying to learn.

From Project Gutenberg