In this paper, we study the growth of solutions of higher order linear differential equations with meromorphic coefficients of \(\varphi\)-order on the complex plane. By considering the concepts of \(\varphi\)-order and \(\varphi \)-type, we will extend and improve many previous results due to Chyzhykov–Semochko, Belaïdi, Cao–Xu–Chen, Kinnunen.