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Dictionary Results For "brainchild" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

From brain + child

Pronunciation

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Noun

A creation, original idea, or innovation, usually used to indicate the originators
:The entire project was the brainchild of a small group of visionaries.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English brainchild \brainchild\ n.
a product of one's creative thinking and work; as, the
project was the brainchild of the director.

Syn: inspiration.
[WordNet 1.5]

WordNet brainchild
n : a product of your creative thinking and work; "he had little
respect for the inspirations of other artists"; "after
years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality"
[syn: inspiration]
[also: brainchildren (pl)]

Moby Dictionary
apparition , art object , article , artifact , autograph , brainstorm ,
bric-a-brac , bright idea , bright thought , brilliant idea , bubble ,
child , chimera , classic , coinage , composition , computer printout ,
concoction , contrivance , copy , creation , creature ,
crowning achievement , delirium , design , distillation , document ,
draft , edited version , effect , eidolon , end product , engrossment ,
essay , essence , extract , fair copy , fancy , fantasque , fantasy ,
fiction , figment , final draft , finished version , first draft ,
flimsy , fruit , good idea , grotesque , hallucination , handiwork ,
holograph , idle fancy , illusion , imagery , imagination , imagining ,
inspiration , insubstantial image , invention , issue , kitsch , letter ,
literae scriptae , literary artefact , literary production ,
literature , lucubration , maggot , make-believe , manufacture ,
manuscript , master , masterpiece , masterwork , matter , mintage ,
mobile , museum piece , myth , new mintage , nonfiction , nude ,
offspring , old master , opera , opus , opuscule , original ,
origination , outcome , outgrowth , paper , parchment , pasticcio ,
pastiche , penscript , phantasm , phantom , piece , piece of virtu ,
piece of writing , play , poem , printed matter , printout , product ,
production , reading matter , recension , result , romance , screed ,
scrip , script , scrive , scroll , second draft , sick fancy , stabile ,
statue , still life , study , the written word , thick-coming fancies ,
transcript , transcription , trip , typescript , vapor , version , virtu ,
vision , whim , whimsy , wildest dreams , work , work of art , writing