brain

Noun

• the brain of certain animals used as meat

• someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
  • Mozart was a child genius
    
  • he's smart but he's no Einstein
    

• that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
  • his mind wandered
    
  • I couldn't get his words out of my head
    

• mental ability
  • he's got plenty of brains but no common sense
    

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

Verb

• kill by smashing someone's skull

• hit on the head

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  genius , mastermind , brainiac , Einstein , mind , head , psyche , nous , brainpower , learning ability , mental capacity , mentality , wit , encephalon