Etymology
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From Latin gestatio.
Pronunciation
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gestation (countable and uncountable, plural gestations)
- The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
- 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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Translations
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period of time a fetus develops inside mother's body
— see also pregnancy
- Asturian: xestación f
- Basque: ernaldi
- Belarusian: цяжа́рнасць f (cjažárnascʹ)
- Bulgarian: бре́менност (bg) f (brémennost)
- Catalan: gestació (ca) f
- Czech: březost (cs) f, gravidita f
- Danish: svangerskab (da) n, graviditet (da) c, drægtighed (da) c (animals only)
- Dutch: zwangerschapstijd m, gestatie (nl) f, drachttijd m, draagtijd (nl) m
- Esperanto: gravedeco
- Finnish: raskausaika (fi)
- French: gestation (fr) f
- Galician: xestación (gl) f
- Georgian: ორსულობა (orsuloba), ფეხმძიმობა (pexmʒimoba), გესტაცია (gesṭacia), მაკეობა (maḳeoba) (for animals)
- German: Reifung (de) f, Heranreifen n
- Greek: κυοφορία (el) f (kyoforía)
- Haitian Creole: jestasyon
- Hungarian: gesztáció
- Ido: gravideso (io)
- Indonesian: gestasi
- Ingrian: raskahusaika
- Italian: gestazione (it) f
- Kazakh: буаздық (buazdyq)
- Macedonian: бременост f (bremenost)
- Malayalam: ഗർഭകാലം (ml) (gaṟbhakālaṁ)
- Marathi: सगर्भता (sagarbhatā)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: svangerskap n, graviditet m, drektighet (no) m or f (animals only)
- Nynorsk: drektigheit
- Occitan: gestacion (oc) f
- Polish: ciąża (pl) f
- Portuguese: gestação (pt) f
- Romanian: gestație (ro) f
- Russian: бере́менность (ru) f (berémennostʹ), вына́шивание (ru) n (vynášivanije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: трудно̀ћа f, бремѐнито̄ст f, гестација f
- Roman: trudnòća f, bremènitōst (sh) f, gestacija f
- Sicilian: gistazzioni m
- Slovak: brezivosť f, gravidita f, gestácia f
- Slovene: nosečnost (sl) f
- Spanish: gestación (es) f
- Swedish: dräktighet (sv) c (animals), graviditet (sv) c (humans)
- Ukrainian: вагі́тність (uk) f (vahítnistʹ)
- Walloon: poirtêye (wa) f
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process of development of a plan or idea
Further reading
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- “gestation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “gestation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.