brainchild
/ˈbɹeɪnˌt͡ʃaɪld/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.76 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The entire project was the brainchild of a small group of visionaries."
- "A brayne-child o' mine ovvne! and I am proud on't!"
- "I am glad you find so many lovers of your brain children in the West, although I knew it would be so."
- "Then, gradually, the almost maternal yearning to see his brain-child [a play] once more, which can never be wholly crushed out of a young dramatist, returned to him—faintly at first, then getting stronger by degrees till it could no longer be resisted. True, he knew that when he beheld it, the offspring of his brain would have been mangled almost out of recognition, but that did not deter him."
- "Inspiration's old lady gave birth to a new brainchild one afternoon at a Rhythm Kings rehearsal, when I took a few choruses on Jack Pettis' C-melody sax while he was out humoring his bladder."
- "We had these people for years and years, such as Mr. [Robert] McNamara and all of his brainchilds, come up here, and he said everything is going to work out fine and everybody followed him. Look what a mess we got into in Southeast Asia."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: *mregʰ-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbɹeɪnˌt͡ʃaɪld/
- British English: /ˈbɹeɪnt͡ʃaɪld/