growth

UK: /ˈgrəʊθ/ US: /groʊθ/ ,(grōth)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

growth /groʊθ/   n. 

1. the act or process or a manner of growing;
   development;
   gradual increase:
   [uncountable] to watch the growth of one's children.
2. size or stage of development:
   [uncountable] full growth.
3. emotional and spiritual evolution:
   [uncountable] felt stifled in her growth as a total human being.
4. expansion;
   enlargement:
   [uncountable] the growth of a business.
5. development from a simpler to a more complex stage:
   [countable* usually singular] the growth of language from a series of grunts to full sentences.
6. [countable] something that has grown or developed, as a crop or harvest.
7. Pathology [countable] an abnormal increase in a mass of tissue, as a tumor.
8. origin or source:
   [uncountable] tobacco of domestic growth.

adj. [before a noun]

9. Business growing or expected to grow in value or earnings at a rate higher than average:
   a growth industry.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

growth  (grōth), n. 

1. the act or process, or a manner of growing;
   development;
   gradual increase.
2. size or stage of development:
   It hasn't yet reached its full growth.
3. completed development.
4. development from a simpler to a more complex stage:
   the growth of ritual forms.
5. development from another but related form or stage:
   the growth of the nation state.
6. something that has grown or developed by or as if by a natural process:
   a growth of stubborn weeds.
7. Pathology an abnormal increase in a mass of tissue, as a tumor.
8. origin;
   source;
   production:
   onions of English growth.

adj. 

9. of or denoting a business, industry, or equity security that grows or is expected to grow in value over a long period of time:
   a growth industry; a growth stock.

• 1550–60; see grow, -th¹; probably cognate with Old Norse grōthr

Synonyms

• 1. augmentation, expansion.
• 6. result, outgrowth.
• 7. excrescence.

Antonyms

• 1. decline, decrease.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

growth / ɡrəʊθ/ noun

1. the process or act of growing, esp in organisms following assimilation of food
2. an increase in size, number, significance, etc
3. something grown or growing: a new growth of hair
4. a stage of development
5. any abnormal tissue, such as a tumour
6. (modifier) of, relating to, causing, or characterized by growth: a growth industry, growth hormone