grown

Word family  noun grower growth undergrowth outgrowth overgrowth adjective growing grown overgrown verb grow outgrow

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++grown1 /ɡrəʊn $ ɡroʊn/ verb  XXthe past participle of grow grow的过去分词grown2 adjective  1  grown man/woman an adult man or woman, used especially when you think someone is not behaving as an adult should 成年男子/女子〔尤用于认为某人行为不像一个成年人时〕 Who ever heard of a grown man being scared of the dark? 有谁听说过一个大男人还怕黑？2  grown children/daughter/son children etc who are now adults 已经成年的子女/女儿/儿子 I’ve got two grown daughters and a son. 我有两个已经成年的女儿和一个儿子。

Examples from the Corpus

grown• He had been a grown man with a small but independent income when he had taken Minnie instead of her to wife.• People divorced, left each other - grown men and women who reached the decision to part.

grown1 verbgrown2 adjectiveChinese  

grow of participle the past Corpus

grown

I

grown¹ /ɡrəʊn $ ɡroʊn/ adjective [only before noun]1. grown man/woman an adult man or woman, used especially when you think someone is not behaving as an adult should:
    Who ever heard of a grown man being scared of the dark?
2. grown children/daughter/son children etc who are now adults:
    I’ve got two grown daughters and a son.

II

grown²
the past participle of grow

grownBrE /ɡrəʊn/ 🔊NAmE /ɡroʊn/ 🔊 adjective [only before noun] (of a person 人) mentally and physically an adult 成熟的；成年的；长大的◆It's pathetic that grown men have to resort to violence like this. 成年人还得这样诉诸暴力，真可悲。🔊🔊  ➡  see also full-grown, grow, home-grown