The word "grown" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that means having attained a full size or maturity, or having advanced to a later stage of development. For example: "The grown oak tree looked majestic in the bright sunlight."
The company has grown spectacularly since their father, Fred, died, in 1967, and the brothers took charge.
With its unexpected revival, Ripper Street has grown broader shoulders and a more confident gait, while retaining the stillness that made it so impressive in the first place.
Likewise, our old playroom – the kids are grown up now and hardly anyone goes in there.
Abbott said the federal government believed "the states should take more responsibility for their public hospitals and for their public schools and we make no apologies for wanting the states to be grown up, adult governments that take responsibility for the programs that are theirs, for the institutions that they run".
This small idea has grown into a franchise and its approach has reinvigorated much of factual television.
Greens grown on soil in good heart, salad leaves produced without the aid of chemical sprays, animals that have lived a good life and eaten good food.
Dubious parenting: the opposite, as Elena tells him: "If I'd known you were gonna grow up to be a grown-up... " Steady on seven.
Faint, adopting the cockney drawl he reserves for grown-ups who don't get it, winces a bit at the idea.
Thankfully, it never happened to me, but I know people who have been victims of this and who still bear a grudge against the cruel or tactless grown-up in question.
The King Of Pigs Two ex-schoolmates revisit their violent past in this grown-up Korean animation.
(One recent survey found that school pupils thought men taking their wives' surnames would demonstrate a "weak character" but the reverse would show women were "grown-up").
