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braincell

braincell is the alternative form of brain cell.

Meaning of brain cell

Noun

brain cell (plural brain cells)

  1. (colloquial) A neuron.
    • Did you know that you have brain cells in your stomach?2018 October 12, Naomi Alderman, “What the gut knows”, in New Statesman
  2. (excessive, figuratively, humorous) Taken as a unit of intelligence, especially in small quantities.
    • Those two morons only have one brain cell to share between them.

Forms of braincell

pluralbraincells

Questions about braincell

What is braincell the alternative form of?
Braincell is the alternative form of brain cell.

Words near braincell in the dictionary

  1. brainbusters
  2. braincase
  3. braincases
  4. braincast
  5. braincasts
  6. braincell
  7. braincells
  8. brainchild
  9. brainchilded
  10. brainchilding
  11. brainchildren

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Adapted from Wiktionary: braincell (page history and authors); brain cell (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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