organ

Meanings

Noun

• A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
• A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
• A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
• An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
• government organization; agency; authority
• The penis.

Verb

• To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• internal organ
• light organ
• sense organ
• sex organ
• storage organ
• vital organ
• en
• barrel organ
• church organ
• mouth organ
• pipe organ
• street organ
• string organ
• swell organ
• water organ (or hydraulic organ)
• wind organ
• house organ

Origin

• From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον ("an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ"), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-. organon, organum, and orgue.