Brainchild

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  139 Moby Thesaurus words for "brainchild":
     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