growth
pronunciation
How to pronounce growth in British English:
UK [ɡrəʊθ]
How to pronounce growth in American English:
US [ɡroʊθ]
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- Noun:
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a progression from simpler to more complex forms
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- vegetation that has grown
- the gradual beginning or coming forth
- (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
- something grown or growing
Word Origin
- growth (n.)
- 1550s, "stage in growing," from grow + -th (2), on model of health, stealth, etc. Compare Old Norse groði, from groa "to grow." Meaning "that which has grown" is from 1570s; "process of growing" is from 1580s. Old English used grownes "increase, prosperity."
Synonym
Example
- 1. Why is growth so important to success ?
- 2. Those sour seas slow the growth of corals .
- 3. We need much faster growth .
- 4. This impeded growth in the market .
- 5. A. several laboratories have identified abnormal brain growth in autism .