probate

probate is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Proof. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Proof.
2. noun. Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved.
3. noun. The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.
4. adjective. Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record.
5. transitive verb. To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will.
6. noun. the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements
7. noun. a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate
8. verb. establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents)
9. verb. put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence

Common word forms

probated, probates, probating

Words from these letters

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