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brainstorms

brainstorms is the plural of brainstorm.

brainstorms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brainstorm.

Meaning of brainstorm

Noun

brainstorm (plural brainstorms)

  1. (US) A sudden thought, particularly one that solves a long-standing problem.
    • I had been working on the problem for weeks, and then I had a brainstorm and saw that the solution was easy.
    Synonyms:
    brainwave
  2. A session of brainstorming, investigating a problem to try to find solutions.
  3. (UK) An unexpected mental error.
    • A terrible fielding error from Tony Graffanino proved costly. … Aaron Rowand collected an RBI double to get them off the mark before Graffanino's brainstorm. Juan Uribe hit a roller to the second baseman, who let the potential inning-ending double-play ball roll under his glove, leaving runners at...2005 October 5, "Iguchi hit ruins Red Sox's night", BBC Online, 5 October

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Questions about brainstorms

What is brainstorms the plural of?
Brainstorms is the plural of brainstorm.

Words near brainstorms in the dictionary

  1. brainstormed
  2. brainstormer
  3. brainstormers
  4. brainstorming
  5. brainstormings
  6. brainstorms
  7. brainstormy
  8. braintape
  9. braintapes
  10. brainteaser
  11. brainteasers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brainstorms (page history and authors); brainstorm (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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