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Definition of growth : 1. That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
2. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.

Synonyms:

ontogeny, developing, bract, buoyancy, aggrandizement, overgrowth, egression, ontogenesis, fully-grown, fullness, elaboration, produce, growing, majority, excrescence, upturn, lump, spurt, anaerobic respiration, proceeds, emergence, blade, consumer confidence, harvest-festival, completion, capitalist, boll, bur, upsurge, egress, gain, outgrowth, harvest-feast, agronomics, biorhythm, harvest, neoplasm, unfolding, austerity, botanical, addition, harvest-tide, fully-fledged, hump, crop, evolution, infantile, progress, commensalism, full-grown, swell, suppuration, grown, mole, chemical digestion, boost, maturement, full-blown, depression, ground cover, upswing, explosion, result, aerial root, evolvement, bulb, nodal, cancer, tumor, change, excrescency, escalation, boom, anther, jump, surge, node, maturation, yield, greenery, exploitation, branch, harvesting, issue, product, ingathering, aerobic respiration, rise, emersion, harvest-time, nodule, harvest-home, ripening, progression, return, immature, mass, adaptation, vegetation, ganglion, offset, overgrown, appendage, boom and bust, bud, reaping, parasite, fruit, leap, autolysis, vegetative, offshoot, proliferation, digestion, absorption, maturing, full-fledged, buildup, developed, augment, cyst, raise, button, maturity, beanstalk, step-up, credit crunch, deflation, aneurysm, egestion, bulge, hike, process, fungus, carbuncle, festering

crescendo, broadening, engorgement, dilation, lengthening, fattening, thickening, spreading, burgeoning, development, stretching, widening, amplification, distension, swelling

high-flying, big, successful, huge, leading, thriving, brilliant, distinguished, triumphant

enlargement, augmentation, magnification, extension, inflation, increase, elevation, increment, expansion, accrual, multiplication

Usage examples:

• Growth and change are not so much questions of time as of conditions. - "His Sombre Rivals", E. P. Roe.
• The change will not be in the sort but in the size, and that not by an addition but by a growth of what is there. - "Quiet Talks on Power", S.D. Gordon.
• The work is a growth, and is still in the process of development. - "The Making of a Country Parish", Harlow S. (Harlow Spencer) Mills.