gestation

Other forms of gestation

plural

gestations·

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.

Questions about gestation

What does gestation mean?

gestation means "the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gestation?

gestation has 3 syllables: ge-sta-tion. The stress falls on "sta". In IPA it is /dʒɛˈsteɪʃən/.

What is another word for gestation?

Close synonyms include gestation period, pregnancy, maternity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gestation a common word?

gestation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with gestation?

12 words rhyme with gestation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.