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Meaning of brainpan | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈbɹeɪnpan/

Definitions

  1. The braincase; the skull.
    Canada, US, colloquial
  2. The brain or mind.
    Canada, US, colloquial

Examples

“Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.”
“Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte, / The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.”
“‘And a hard word it is,’ said Richie, ‘as my brainpan kens to this blessed moment.’”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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