📚 Probate, noun. 🔉 /ˈprəʊbeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun • count noun): A verified copy of a will with a certificate as handed to the executors. ❗️ Examples: 1. She has been granted a probate to execute her late father's estate. 2. There will be workshops each day and talks on a variety of subjects, including how to research your family history online, how to use the Census, service records, wills and probates. 3. Oddly, the reply refers to only 12 probates from San Francisco, in contrast to the ‘few hundred’ he claimed to have examined when Seckora interviewed him. 4. Hood draws upon probates, tax records, account books, newspaper ads, tax records and other government records in a study that contributes to social and family history as well as economic history and the history of technology. 5. Wills, probates, property and tax records are also valuable sources of information. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic