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say it: in-STAN-shee-ayt
instantiate is a verb meaning "represent by an instance". It carries 2 recorded senses.
represent by an instance
“This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect”
find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)
“The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect”
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 instantiate 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.