development

development is a valid 11-letter word worth 19 points in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends.

Meaning

What does development mean?

  • noun

    processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible

  • noun

    the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful

  • noun

    a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)

  • noun

    (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

  • noun

    act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining

  • noun

    a district that has been developed to serve some purpose

  • noun

    a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation

  • noun

    a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

  • noun

    (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated

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