brain
noun
[ breɪn ]
• an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating centre of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.
• "a brain tumour"
• intellectual capacity.
• "I didn't have enough brains for the sciences"
Similar:
intelligence,
intellect,
intellectual capacity,
mental capacity,
brainpower,
cleverness,
wit,
wits,
powers of reasoning,
reasoning,
wisdom,
sagacity,
acumen,
discernment,
shrewdness,
judgement,
understanding,
common sense,
sense,
mind,
head,
nous,
grey matter,
savvy,
braininess,
loaf,
upper storey,
smarts,
kop,
brain
verb
• hit (someone) hard on the head with an object.
• "she brained me with a rolling pin"
Origin:
Old English brægen, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch brein .
