gestation

gestation is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
2. noun. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.
3. noun. Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.
4. noun. the conception and development of an idea or plan
5. noun. the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus

   Synonyms: maternity, pregnancy

6. noun. the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)

Synonyms

maternity, pregnancy

Common word forms

gestations, gestational

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