growth

English

Etymology

From grow +‎ -th. 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.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɹoʊθ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɹəʊθ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊθ

Noun

growth (countable and uncountable, plural growths)

1. An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
2. (economics) Ellipsis of economic growth.

   Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.

   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.

   • 2022 October 5, Rowena Mason, quoting Liz Truss, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Liz Truss has promised Britons she has “got your back” and set out a plan for “growth, growth and growth” in a conference speech disrupted by protesters asking who voted for her plan.

3. An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.

   Struggle, disappointment, and criticism all contribute to a person's growth.

4. (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
5. (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
6. (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

Synonyms

• (increase in size): enlargement, expansion, increase, increment
• (act of growing): development, maturation
• (something that grows or has grown): vegetation
• (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): outgrowth, cancer, mass

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “increase in size”): contraction, decrease, decrement, reduction
• (antonym(s) of “act of growing”): nondevelopment

Hyponyms

• (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): tumor

Derived terms

Terms derived from growth

• aftergrowth
• antigrowth
• autogrowth
• bottom growth
• 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
• 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
• hypergrowth
• ingrowth
• intergrowth
• logistic growth
• macrogrowth
• megagrowth
• microgrowth
• misgrowth
• negative growth
• nerve growth factor
• nongrowth
• old-growth
• old-growth forest
• organic growth
• outgrowth
• overgrowth
• postgrowth
• regrowth
• second-growth forest
• slowth
• spring growth
• supergrowth
• undergrowth
• upgrowth
• vascular endothelial growth factor
• zero growth
• zero population growth

 

Translations

increase in size

• Arabic: تَنْمِيَة (ar) f (tanmiya), نُمُو (numū)
• Armenian: աճ (hy) (ač)
• Asturian: crecimientu m
• Azerbaijani: böyümə, artma, boy atma, artma
• Bashkir: ҙурайыу (źurayıw), үҫеш (üśeş)
• Belarusian: рост m (rost)
• Breton: kresk (br)
• Bulgarian: расте́ж (bg) m (rastéž), ръст (bg) m (rǎst)
• Catalan: creixement (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 生長 / 生长 (sang¹ zoeng²)

  Hokkien: 生長 / 生长 (zh-min-nan) (sing-tióng)

  Mandarin: 生長 / 生长 (zh) (shēngzhǎng)

• Czech: růst (cs) m, vzrůst (cs) m, nárůst (cs) m
• Danish: vækst c
• Dutch: groei (nl) m, toename (nl)
• Esperanto: kreskiĝo
• Estonian: kasv
• Faroese: vøkstur m
• Finnish: kasvu (fi)
• French: croissance (fr) f
• Galician: crecemento (gl) m
• Georgian: ზრდა (zrda), გაზრდა (gazrda), მატება (maṭeba), მომატება (momaṭeba)
• German: Wachstum (de) n
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐍄𐍃 f (uswahsts)
• Greek: ανάπτυξη (el) f (anáptyxi)

  Ancient: αὔξησις f (aúxēsis)

• Hebrew: גדילה f (gdilɑ), צמיחה f (tsmiḥɑ)
• Hindi: विकास (hi) m (vikās)
• Hungarian: növekedés (hu)
• Irish: forás m, fás m, borrúlacht f
• Italian: crescita (it) f
• Japanese: (animals, economy) 成長 (ja) (せいちょう, seichō), (plants) 生長 (ja) (せいちょう, seichō)
• Korean: 성장(成長) (ko) (seongjang), 생장(生長) (ko) (saengjang)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: girbûn (ku), gewrebûn (ku)

• Kyrgyz: өсүм (ky) (ösüm)
• Latin: auctus (la) m
• Latvian: augšana f, izaugsme f
• Lithuanian: augimas (lt) m
• Luxemburgish: Wuesstem n
• Macedonian: раст m (rast), развој m (razvoj) (development)
• Malayalam: വളർച്ച (ml) (vaḷaṟcca)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vekst m, framvekst m

  Nynorsk: vekst m, framvekst m

• Occitan: creissença (oc) f
• Old English: æþelu f or n
• Old Norse: vǫxtr
• Persian: رشد (fa) (rošd), وخشش (vaxšeš)
• Polish: wzrost (pl) m inan, rozwój (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: acréscimo (pt) m, crescimento (pt)
• Russian: рост (ru) m (rost), разви́тие (ru) n (razvítije) (development)
• Sanskrit: उपचय (sa) m (upacaya)
• Scottish Gaelic: fàs m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра̑ст m

  Roman: rȃst (sh) m

• Sicilian: crìscita f
• Slovak: rast m, vzrast m
• Slovene: rast (sl) f, porast f
• Spanish: crecimiento (es) m
• Swahili: ukuaji (sw)
• Swedish: stigande (sv) n, tilltagande (sv) n, tillväxt (sv) c, utvidgning (sv) c
• Tocharian B: tsamo
• Turkish: büyüme (tr)
• Ukrainian: ріст m (rist)
• Welsh: cynnydd m
• West Frisian: groei c oanwaaks c

act of growing

• Armenian: աճ (hy) (ač)
• Bashkir: үҫеш (üśeş)
• Bulgarian: нара́стване (bg) n (narástvane)
• Czech: růst (cs) m, vzrůst (cs) m
• Dutch: groei (nl) m
• Finnish: kasvu (fi)
• Georgian: ზრდა (zrda), გაზრდა (gazrda)
• German: Wachstum (de) n
• Hebrew: צמיחה f (tsmiḥɑ)
• Indonesian: pertumbuhan (id)
• Irish: breisiú m, forás m, fás m, borrúlacht f
• Italian: crescita (it) f
• Macedonian: раст m (rast), растење n (rastenje)
• Malayalam: വളർച്ച (ml) (vaḷaṟcca)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vekst m

• Persian: رویش (fa) (ruyeš)
• Polish: rośnięcie (pl) n, wzrastanie (pl) n (literary)
• Portuguese: crescimento (pt) m
• Russian: рост (ru) m (rost), приро́ст (ru) m (priróst), возраста́ние (ru) n (vozrastánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: fàs m
• Sicilian: crìscita f
• Slovak: rast m
• Slovene: rast (sl) f
• Spanish: crecimiento (es) m
• Swahili: ukuaji (sw)
• Swedish: tillväxt (sv) c, växt (sv) c, utveckling (sv) c
• Turkish: büyüme (tr)
• Ukrainian: прирі́ст (pryríst)
• Welsh: twf m
• West Frisian: groei c oanwaaks c

something that grows or has grown

• Azerbaijani: artım (az)
• Czech: porost (cs) m
• Danish: vækst c
• Dutch: groei (nl)
• Faroese: grøði f
• Finnish: kasvu (fi)
• Georgian: ნამატი (namaṭi)
• German: Bewuchs (de) m, Vegetation (de) f, Wuchs (de) m, Bewucherung f
• Hebrew: צמחייה f (tsimḥiɑ)
• Macedonian: израсток m (izrastok)
• Russian: по́росль (ru) f (póroslʹ) (shoots, shrub), отро́сток (ru) m (otróstok) (appendage)
• Slovene: rastje n
• Swedish: vegetation (sv) c, växt (sv) c, växtlighet (sv) c

pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor

• Czech: bujení n
• Danish: vækst c
• Finnish: kasvain (fi), kasvannainen, pesäke (fi)
• French: croissance (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Geschwulst (de) f, Wucherung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: φῦμα n (phûma)

• Hebrew: גידול \ גִּדּוּל (he) m (gidul)
• Italian: crescita (it), accrescimento (it) m
• Macedonian: израсток m (izrastok)
• Maori: ngene (benign and on the skin)
• Polish: narośl (pl) f
• Portuguese: crescimento (pt)
• Russian: наро́ст (ru) m (naróst)
• Spanish: crecimiento (es)
• Swedish: svulst (sv) c, växt (sv) c, utväxt (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ზრდა (zrda), ^{(please verify)} ნამატი (namaṭi)