grown
adjective/ɡrəʊn/
/ɡrəʊn/
[only before noun]- (of a person) mentally and physically an adult
- It's pathetic that grown men have to resort to violence like this.
- The little girl she remembered was now a grown woman.
Homophones groan | growngroan grown/ɡrəʊn//ɡrəʊn/- groan verb
- The awful jokes made us all groan.
- groan noun
- He let out a groan of pain.
- grown (past participle of grow)
- The business has grown hugely in the last ten years.
- grown adjective
- Although he's a grown man, he'll always be our little boy.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGrown is used with these nouns:- child
- man
- woman
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