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grown

1 adjective
     
grown1 [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.
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