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say it: brayn
brain is a noun and verb meaning "that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord". It carries 7 recorded senses.
that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
mental ability
“he's got plenty of brains but no common sense”
that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
“his mind wandered”
“I couldn't get his words out of my head”
someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
“Mozart was a child genius”
“he's smart but he's no Einstein”
the brain of certain animals used as meat
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 brain 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.