growth
/ɡɹoʊθ/ noun B1- An increase in size, number, value, or strength. · Nanoelectronics is one of the area's few growth industries .
- 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.
- Something that grows or has grown.
- An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
Plural growths
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SPRING had come once more to Green Gables--the beautiful capricious, reluctant Canadian spring, lingering along through April and May in a succession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles of resurrection and growth.
The velvet carpet with the pink roses and the pink silk curtains of Anne’s early visions had certainly never materialized; but her dreams had kept pace with her growth, and it is not probable she lamented them.
Wilfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged favourite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patronage, and who had been brought up to expect its exertion, would be a depravity, to which the separation of two young persons whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could bear no comparison.
Renée shuddered at the word cut, for the growth in question had a head.
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