Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun organ

6 senses of organ

Sense 1
organ -- (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)
       => body part -- (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Sense 2
organ -- (a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function; "The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department")
       => agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authority -- (an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority")

Sense 3
electric organ, electronic organ, Hammond organ, organ -- ((music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ)
       => electronic instrument, electronic musical instrument -- (a musical instrument that generates sounds electronically)

Sense 4
organ -- (a periodical that is published by a special interest group; "the organ of the communist party")
       => periodical -- (a publication that appears at fixed intervals)

Sense 5
organ, pipe organ -- (wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard)
       => keyboard instrument -- (a musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboard)
       => wind instrument, wind -- (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath)

Sense 6
harmonium, organ, reed organ -- (a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows)
       => free-reed instrument -- (a wind instrument with a free reed)