barrel organ

Questions about barrel organ

What is another word for barrel organ?

It depends which barrel organ you mean. In the sense “a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs”, the synonyms are grind organ, hand organ. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of barrel organ?

WordNet records no antonym for barrel organ. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for barrel organ come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of barrel organ

• Full entry for barrel organAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for barrel organWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.