PIPE ORGAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pipe organ mean? 

• PIPE ORGAN (noun)
  The noun PIPE ORGAN has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PIPE ORGAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIPE ORGAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

organ; pipe organ

Hypernyms ("pipe organ" is a kind of...):

keyboard instrument (a musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboard)

wind; wind instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath)

Meronyms (parts of "pipe organ"):

keyboard (device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like)

organ pipe; pipe; pipework (the flues and stops on a pipe organ)

foot lever; foot pedal; pedal; treadle (a lever that is operated with the foot)

clavier; fingerboard; piano keyboard (a bank of keys on a musical instrument)

stop ((music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes)