electronic organ
- noun
- /ɪˌlɛktrɒnɪk ˈɔrɡən/
:
órgano electrónico
- At the concert, the band featured an electronic organ that filled the hall with rich, warm sounds.
Examples
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You can use it to grab sound from a microphone, VCR, telephone, TV, radio, electronic organ, video tape, CD player, DVD player, or dialogues from movies, game sounds, streaming audio on the Internet, etc.
Academic text (2008) -
The musician played beautiful hymns on the new electronic organ during the Sunday service.
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In music class, we learned how to create different tones on the electronic organ.
Synonyms
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4.2
A musical instrument that makes sound using electricity
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4.0
A keyboard instrument that makes sounds like a pipe organ using electricity
A device that makes musical sounds using electricity, like a synthesizer or keyboard
A musical machine with keys you press to make notes, like a piano or organ
The study of musical instruments, their history and how they make sound
Antonyms
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5.3
A large musical instrument that makes sound through many pipes and you play with keyboards and pedals
How Realistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'electronic' (using electronic technology) modifies 'organ' (a keyboard musical instrument), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it is an organ that produces sound electronically. This adjective+noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows normal English modification, making the phrase immediately understandable from its parts.
Etymology
The noun electronic organ combines electronic (electric parts and speakers) with the old pipe organ, the large keyboard that used many heavy pipes. Think of a smaller keyboard with wires and speakers making the same full organ sound instead of pipes, so electronic organ means 'a keyboard that produces organ sounds using electricity'.