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From Latin gestatio.

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  • enPR: jĕstāshən, IPA(key): /d͡ʒɛsˈteɪʃən/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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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, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 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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From Latin gestātiōnem.

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gestation f (plural gestations)

  1. gestation

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