English dictionary

brain

/br/eI/n/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

noun.body

Synonyms encephalon

Source: WordNet 3.0
mental ability

noun.cognition

Examples
He's got plenty of brains but no common sense.

Synonyms brainpower learning ability mental capacity mentality wit

Source: WordNet 3.0
that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason

noun.cognition

Synonyms head mind nous psyche

Source: WordNet 3.0
someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

noun.person

Synonyms brainiac einstein genius mastermind

Source: WordNet 3.0
the brain of certain animals used as meat

noun.food

Source: WordNet 3.0
The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.

noun

Source: webster1913

hit on the head

verb.contact

Source: WordNet 3.0
kill by smashing someone's skull

verb.contact

Source: WordNet 3.0
To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.

verb

Source: webster1913