What is the connection between GDP and economic growth?

Question

What is the connection between GDP and economic growth?

Answer 1

GDP is a measure of the economic value produces by a country in a year. A growing GDP is a measure of a growing economy in the same way that a rising thermometer indicates that the air is warming.  

Answer 2

GDP rising is a sign of economic growth. They kinda go together.

If the GDP drops, the economy is not growing.