Meaning & use
grown
Having reached full physical or mental development; adult.
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Their grown children still visit every single Sunday for dinner.
He acted like a grown man despite being only sixteen.
A note on using this word
Grown is often used informally to mean adult, as in a grown woman, emphasizing maturity rather than exact age.
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