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älykkö — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • brain noun The organ inside the skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the nervous system.
  • intellect noun The mental capacity for reasoning, understanding, and abstract thought.
  • intellectual adj Relating to the ability to think and reason, rather than to emotions or physical skill.

Senses

älykkö is used for these senses in English:

  • brain (informal) An intelligent person.
  • intellect A person who has that faculty to a great degree.
  • intellectual An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

brain — full definition

  1. noun The organ inside the skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the nervous system.
  2. noun A person's intelligence or mental ability.
  3. noun An especially intelligent person, or the person supplying the ideas behind a plan.
  4. verb Informal: to hit someone hard on the head.

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