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say it: JEH-stayt
gestate is a verb meaning "have the idea for". It is pronounced /ˈdʒɛˌsteɪt/ — JEH-stayt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
have the idea for
“He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients”
“This library was well conceived”
be pregnant with
“She is bearing his child”
“The are expecting another child in January”
“I am carrying his child”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gestate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.