Definition of growth:

• The process of growing that goes on in plants and animals; increase; advancement; progress; improvement; that which has grown; anything produced.
• The act of growing; in crease; advancement: grown over, covered with a growth, as of creeping plants: to grow out of, to issue from, as a branch from a tree; to result from - to grow up, to arrive at full stature or maturity to grow together, to become united by growth.
• See under grow.

Usage examples for growth

1. She said 'twa'n't no use staying on the farm, they couldn't make a living off from it now they'd cut the growth.  Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett

2. A new growth on the foundation appears.  Seed Thoughts for Singers by Frank Herbert Tubbs

3. But there is in the nature of the child, when in health, a demand for growth.  How to Live a Holy Life by C. E. Orr

4. But this, however, must be clearly borne in mind, that, while the Fullness of the Spirit is a gift, the fruit of the Spirit is a growth.  The Spirit-Filled Life by John MacNeil Commentator: Andrew Murray