grown
Covered by growth; overgrown.
Example
“What once was a farm was grown with trees.”
Other meanings
Of a person: adult.
“Listen, I'm a grown woman, and I don't have time to deal with your petty teenage drama.”
Related words
- Empire-grown
- full-grown
- fully-grown
- grass-grown
- lab-grown
- grownish
- grown-up
- grown-up-ness
- grown-upness
- half-grown
- high-grown
- home-grown
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "growen".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “grown” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.