gestation

Noun

Meaning

The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).

The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.

Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pregnancy maternity gestation period parenthood development growth formation evolution establishment preparation manufacture sitting pregnant reproduction conception
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Antonyms

death end basis fall decline destruction
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Hypernyms

construction physical condition physiological condition physiological state biological time mental synthesis

Hyponyms

para trouble parity ectopic pregnancy gravida gravidity

Phrases with the word

anembryonic gestation not in gestation time of gestation

Examples

As the British Constitution is the most subtile organism which has proceeded from the womb and the long gestation of progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off by the brain and purpose of man. William Ewart Gladstone

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years. Roland Joffe

For it is an ordinance of nature that nothing great can be achieved in a moment, and that all the fairest tasks are attended with difficulty, while on births as well she has imposed this law, that the larger the animal, the longer should be the period of gestation. Quintilian

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. Wole Soyinka

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced. Alastair Reynolds

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation. Jonas Salk

Close letter words and terms

Gestapo Gestapolike gestate gestation crate gestation period gestation sac