gestation

From Latin gestatio.

• enPR: jĕstāshən, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒesˈteɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

gestation (countable and uncountable, plural gestations)

1. The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
2. The process of development of a plan or idea.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 149:

     It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation, just as I had been with his.

• pregnancy

• gestation period

• gestation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• gestation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

From Latin gestātiō.

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/

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gestation f (plural gestations)

1. gestation

• gestation pour autrui
• gestationnel

• “gestation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.