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growing pains

grow·ing pain
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [groh-ing peyn]
    • /ˈgroʊ ɪŋ peɪn/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [groh-ing peyn]
    • /ˈgroʊ ɪŋ peɪn/

Definitions of growing pains words

  • noun plural growing pains If a person or organization suffers from growing pains, they experience temporary difficulties and problems at the beginning of a particular stage of development. 0
  • noun plural growing pains If children suffer from growing pains, they have pain in their muscles or joints that is caused by unusually fast growth. 0
  • noun plural growing pains pains in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children during a period of unusually rapid growth 0
  • noun plural growing pains difficulties besetting a new enterprise in its early stages 0
  • noun growing pains recurrent pains in the joints and muscles, esp. of the legs, of growing children 0
  • noun growing pains difficulties experienced in the early development of a person, project, etc. 0

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Origin of growing pains

First appearance:

before 1800
One of the 42% newest English words
First recorded in 1800-10

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Parts of speech for Growing pains

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

growing pains popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 34% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 58% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

Synonyms for growing pains

noun growing pains

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