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say it: PROH-bayt
probate is a noun and verb meaning "a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate
law
the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements
put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence
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 probate 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.