Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An original idea or plan attributed to a person or group.
Wiktionary
- n. A creation, original idea, or innovation, usually used to indicate the originators
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a product of one's creative thinking and work.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a product of your creative thinking and work
Etymologies
- From brain + child (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In addition to that, Haugh's "Tractorri" - that's what he calls his brainchild - also comes with the Gallardo's E-gear sequential automatic transmission and its all-wheel drive system.”
“Popgadget: If you are a digger for gizmos with small form factors, this first brainchild from the Korean company”
“Mr. Self’s brainchild is called the Variable Gantry Mount, and for those of you who like to shoot at long range, it can save you a lot of aggravation and money.”
“Her biggest brainchild is a “rapid-response unit,” which operates much like a political campaign’s war room.”
“His brainchild is the so-called Newspaper Revitalization Act, which would allow ne…”
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“In honor of this novelty, Kinsley has dubbed his brainchild Slate, "" as in blank, '' he explains.”
“Can't name the brainchild of Wightman, an early-20th-century U.S.”
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“By analogy with the acronym that produces the word laser, they dubbed their brainchild "surface plasmon amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation" - spaser - and published a paper about it (”
“Six decades later their brainchild was the rage of Paris.”
“Pusey called his brainchild "flexibles" quite possibly because, unlike their predecessors, which smokers carried in silhouette-marring match safes, they slid into a dandy's pocket with nary a bump.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brainchild’.
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bbc uk china vocab.
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
revelation, eureka, awakening, idea, sapient, astute, canny, intelligent, wise, sharp, shrewd, informed and 467 more...
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brain phrases/words
how brain is used
boiled brains, brain-ache, brain atom, brain axis, brain ball, brain-begot, brain-being, brain-born, brain brat, brain-break, brain-breaking, brain-bred and 140 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 523 more...
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The Enterprise
enterprise, gameplan, goal, gimmick, intendment of int..., lay of the land, machination, notions, object, objectives, pitch, picture and 54 more...
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Ideas
brainchild, inspiration, muse, genius, eureka, discovery, intellectual prop..., intangible asset, goodwill, patented, savant, brainiac and 76 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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logophile
viresce, infinitum, transient, nonpareil, anon, therianthropy, lycomania, halcyon, unblinkered, seraphim, nephilim, moros and 160 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1707 more...
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compounds
blatherskite, buckskin, fishmonger, hoarfrost, applesauce, moonshine, fiddlehead, snickerdoodle, lodestar, lifeblood, brainchild, starry-eyed and 17 more...
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Poetrie: The Book of My Enemy Has Bee...
by Clive James
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been sei...glad, crystal goblets, champagne, sweet moment, offset, sadness, slight element, merit, marketing error, miscalculated pri..., meted out, chastisement of r... and 59 more...
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Words = Good
me like dese werds
vex, saunter, boob, had had, jurisprudence, ghastly, mellifluous, calumny, lumber, bee, spendthrift, upbraid and 14 more...
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the list
faute de mieux, cinnamon, tragedy, labyrinth, delicious, brainstorm, naked, precarious, splendid, pistachio, species, impeach and 14 more...
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