See brainteaser in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for brainteaser meaning in English (2.0kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "brain",
"3": "teaser"
},
"expansion": "brain + teaser",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "brain + teaser",
"forms": [
{
"form": "brainteasers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "brainteaser (plural brainteasers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A difficult problem or puzzle."
],
"id": "en-brainteaser-en-noun-VWCXBWhB",
"links": [
[
"problem",
"problem"
],
[
"puzzle",
"puzzle"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) A difficult problem or puzzle."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "brainteasing"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "brain teaser"
},
{
"word": "brain-teaser"
}
],
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kopfnuss"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "obsolete spelling",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kopfnuß"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Denkaufgabe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Denksportaufgabe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "harte Nuss"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "obsolete spelling",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "harte Nuß"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Knobelei"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "spazokefaliá",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "σπαζοκεφαλιά"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"word": "chemsha bongo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"word": "hjärngymnastik"
}
]
}
],
"word": "brainteaser"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "brain",
"3": "teaser"
},
"expansion": "brain + teaser",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "brain + teaser",
"forms": [
{
"form": "brainteasers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "brainteaser (plural brainteasers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "brainteasing"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English informal terms",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"A difficult problem or puzzle."
],
"links": [
[
"problem",
"problem"
],
[
"puzzle",
"puzzle"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) A difficult problem or puzzle."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "brain teaser"
},
{
"word": "brain-teaser"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kopfnuss"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "obsolete spelling",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kopfnuß"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Denkaufgabe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Denksportaufgabe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "harte Nuss"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "obsolete spelling",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "harte Nuß"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Knobelei"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "spazokefaliá",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "σπαζοκεφαλιά"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"word": "chemsha bongo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "brainteaser",
"word": "hjärngymnastik"
}
],
"word": "brainteaser"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.