Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A musician who plays the organ.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who plays on an organ, especially a pipe-organ; specifically, in modern churches, the regular official charged with playing the organ and often with the management of all the music of the service.
- noun In medieval music, a singer who sang some other part than the cantus firmus or melody. Also
organizer . - noun In ornithology, a West Indian tanager, Euphone or Euphonia musica: so called from its musical powers. The name is also given to other tanagers of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) One who plays on the organ.
- noun (R. C. Ch.), obsolete One of the priests who organized or sung in parts.
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- noun A
musician whoplays theorgan .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who plays an organ
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Examples
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She has been the Abbey's main organist since 1995.
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It permits the organist a surprising degree of freedom of expression, even to the extent that every organist is a kind of composer in his or her own right, by virtue of the tempos and stops chosen for each piece.
What is the Organ? 2009
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The organist is future director G. Wallace Woodworth.
The lads in their hundreds (2) Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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The organist is future director G. Wallace Woodworth.
Archive 2008-12-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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I went because the organist was a friend of a friend -- significant for me, since I don't go to many organ concerts.
Albert Imperato: Cameron Carpenter -- Taking His Organ on the Road 2010
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I went because the organist was a friend of a friend -- significant for me, since I don't go to many organ concerts.
Albert Imperato: Cameron Carpenter -- Taking His Organ on the Road 2010
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The organist was a slightish man, white-haired, who seemed to hover in the alcove, his back to the audience, wizardly in his very smallness, and he hit the thunder pedal just as a figure on the screen drew back cowering from some danger above, and laughter swept the auditorium.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The organist was a slightish man, white-haired, who seemed to hover in the alcove, his back to the audience, wizardly in his very smallness, and he hit the thunder pedal just as a figure on the screen drew back cowering from some danger above, and laughter swept the auditorium.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The organist was a slightish man, white-haired, who seemed to hover in the alcove, his back to the audience, wizardly in his very smallness, and he hit the thunder pedal just as a figure on the screen drew back cowering from some danger above, and laughter swept the auditorium.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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As luck would have it, the organist is a kindly soul who last year suffered through too much of my squawking.
trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2005
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