growth
UK/ɡɹəʊθ//ɡɹoʊθ/
growth noun: an increase in size, number, value, or strength. Also the ellipsis of economic growth.
Noun
growth (countable and uncountable, plural growths)
- An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
- Nanoelectronics is one of the area's few growth industries .
- It may be that a free society as we have known it carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of...1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, pages 431-432
- Synonyms:
- enlargement, expansion, increase, increment
- An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
- Struggle, disappointment, and criticism all contribute to a person's growth.
- The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
- Synonyms:
- development, maturation
- Something that grows or has grown.
- Scary-looking rabbits were hopping around Fort Collins. These weren’t your standard cute, fluffy bunnies; they had horn-like growths protruding from their faces and bodies.2025 August 14, Angela Haupt, “What to Know About the Horned ‘Zombie’ Rabbits Hopping Around Colorado”, in TIME
- Synonyms:
- vegetation
- An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
- Synonyms:
- outgrowth
Also used as
growth is also the ellipsis of economic growth.
growth meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
growth in Hindi
- increase in size
- विकास vikās, वर्धन vardhan
- act of growing
- वर्धन vardhan
growth in Bengali
- বৃদ্ধি, প্রবৃদ্ধি
growth in Telugu
- పెరుగుదల, వృద్ధి, ఎదుగుదల
More languagesFewer languages
- growth in Malayalam
- വളർച്ച vaḷaṟcca
- growth in Kannada
- ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ, ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆಯನ್ನು
- growth in Gujarati
- વૃદ્ધિ
- growth in Odia
- ଅଭିବୃଦ୍ଧି, ବୃଦ୍ଧି
- growth in Sanskrit
- उपचय upacaya
- growth in Nepali
- वृद्धि, बढोत्तरी
- growth in Arabic
- تَنْمِيَة tanmiya, نُمُو numū
- growth in Indonesian
- pertumbuhan
- growth in Persian
- رشد rošd, وخشش vaxšeš, رویش ruyeš
Examples of growth in a sentence
- The company plans to accelerate its growth with new marketing strategies.
- Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.
- After six years of constant growth, the company reported a slight decrease in sales last year.
Synonyms of growth
Antonyms
Forms of growth
| plural | growths |
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Origin of growth
From grow + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old Frisian grēd ("meadow, pasture"; > North Frisian greyde (“growth, pasture”)), Middle High German gruote, gruot (“greens, fresh growth, shoot”), Old Norse gróðr ("growth, crop"; > Faroese grøði, Danish grøde (“fruits”), Swedish gröda (“crop, harvest”)). More at grow.
Words formed from growth
- aftergrowth
- antigrowth
- autogrowth
- bottom growth
- bovine growth hormone
- chain growth polymerization
- cogrowth
- degrowth
- diauxic growth
- economic growth
- edgrowth
- epigrowth
- establishment growth
- exponential growth
- geometric growth
- grand period of growth
- growth arrest line
- growth cone
- growth factor
- growth form
- growthful
- growth hacker
- growth hacking
- growth hormone
- growth investing
- growthism
- growthist
- growthless
- growthmania
- growth medium
- growth mindset
- growth plate
- growth rate
- growth retardation
- growth-retarding
- growth ring
- growthsome
- growth spurt
- growth stock
- growthwise
- growthy
- hemiperipheral growth
- high-growth
- holoperipheral growth
- hypergrowth
- ingrowth
- intergrowth
- logistic growth
- macrogrowth
- megagrowth
- microgrowth
- misgrowth
- mixoperipheral growth
- negative growth
- nerve growth factor
- nongrowth
- old-growth
- old-growth forest
- organic growth
- outgrowth
Phrases with growth
Words that rhyme with growth
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Questions about growth
- What does growth mean?
- Growth means an increase in size, number, value, or strength.
- What is growth in Hindi?
- Growth in Hindi is विकास (vikās), वर्धन (vardhan). See Growth meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is growth?
- Growth is a noun.
- How do you pronounce growth?
- Growth is pronounced /ɡɹoʊθ/ (US).
- What is the plural of growth?
- The plural of growth is growths.
Words near growth in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: growth (page history and authors); growth (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); growth (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); growth (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); growth (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); growth (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); growth (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); growth (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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