Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To carry within the uterus from conception to delivery.
- intransitive verb To conceive and develop in the mind.
- intransitive verb To gestate offspring.
- intransitive verb To develop gradually.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To carry in the womb during the natural period of fetal development; hence, figuratively, to form and gradually mature (some project) in the mind, to be brought forth in due time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To carry
offspring in theuterus fromconception todelivery . - verb by analogy To
develop anidea .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be pregnant with
- verb have the idea for
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He says, every year I get a year to kind of gestate that year.
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The fruitcakes gestate side-by-side in the extra refrigerator in my garage.
Lindsay Pyfer: Homemade Fruitcake: Old School And Worth The Effort Lindsay Pyfer 2011
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New ideas, images and beliefs began to gestate in what felt like a nurturing womb.
Elizabeth Cunningham: Credo: Community Without Conformity Elizabeth Cunningham 2011
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Elephants gestate for 22 months, giraffes 16 months, orang-utans 8 months.
Archive 2010-02-01 Nalini Singh 2010
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New ideas, images and beliefs began to gestate in what felt like a nurturing womb.
Elizabeth Cunningham: Credo: Community Without Conformity Elizabeth Cunningham 2011
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The fruitcakes gestate side-by-side in the extra refrigerator in my garage.
Lindsay Pyfer: Homemade Fruitcake: Old School And Worth The Effort Lindsay Pyfer 2011
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The fruitcakes gestate side-by-side in the extra refrigerator in my garage.
Lindsay Pyfer: Homemade Fruitcake: Old School And Worth The Effort Lindsay Pyfer 2011
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We allowed the sin of that terrible family to gestate in this community, and Brucie paid for it.
So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011
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The fruitcakes gestate side-by-side in the extra refrigerator in my garage.
Lindsay Pyfer: Homemade Fruitcake: Old School And Worth The Effort Lindsay Pyfer 2011
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Investors have shied away from chip companies because they take more time and money to gestate than other start-ups.
Chip Firm Gains Sizable Infusion Don Clark 2011
ry commented on the word gestate
a bizarre new addition to corpspeak lexicon?
Today in a meeting one of my coworkers said "Let's gestate this," as some kind of coda, tabling a discussion.
Also: twitter spambots seem to have this word in heavy rotation at the moment: see Tweets
May 3, 2013