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Webster 1913 Edition


Gestation

Ges-ta′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
gestatio
a bearing, carrying, fr.
gestare
to bear, carry, intens. fr.
gerere
,
gestum
, to bear: cf. F.
gestation
. See
Gest
deed,
Jest
.]
1.
The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
[Obs.]
2.
The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.
3.
Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.
Dunglison.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gestation

GESTA'TION

,
Noun.
[L. gestatio, from gero, to carry.]
1.
The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.
2.
The act of wearing, as clothes or ornaments.
3.
The act of carrying sick persons in carriages, as a salutary exercise, by which fevers have often been cured.

Definition 2024


gestation

gestation

English

Noun

gestation (countable and uncountable, plural gestations)

  1. The period of time during which an infant animal or human 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.

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

French

Noun

gestation f (plural gestations)

  1. gestation