accompaniment

accompaniment
ac|com|pa|ni|ment [ ə`kʌmpənımənt ] noun
1. ) count or uncount the part of a piece of music that supports the tune or someone singing:
a simple violin accompaniment
2. ) count FORMAL something that happens while or because something else is happening:
an inevitable accompaniment of the transition to a market economy
3. ) count something that you provide as a good addition, especially to a particular meal:
accompaniment to: Serve the sauce as an accompaniment to roast meat.
to the accompaniment of something
1. ) while a musical instrument plays a tune:
The girls sang to the accompaniment of a piano.
2. ) while something else is happening or can be heard:
Franco left the chamber to the accompaniment of loud applause.

Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.

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  • accompaniment — accompaniment, concomitant denote in common something attendant upon or found in association with another thing. Both may imply addition, but they vary chiefly in the kind of relationship connoted between the principal and the attendant things.… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • accompaniment — [n1] necessary part or embellishment accessory, adjunct, appendage, appurtenance, attachment, attendant, attribute, augmentation, complement, concomitant, enhancement, enrichment, supplement; concepts 834,835 accompaniment [n2] music that… …   New thesaurus

  • accompaniment — [ə kum′pə nə mənt, ə kum′pənēmənt; ] often [, ə kump′nəmənt, ə kump′nēmənt] n. 1. anything that accompanies something else; thing added, usually for order or symmetry 2. Music a part, usually instrumental, performed together with the main part… …   English World dictionary

  • Accompaniment — Ac*com pa*ni*ment ( ment), n. [F. accompagnement.] That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • accompaniment — index appurtenance, attendance, codicil, rider, synchronism Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • accompaniment — (n.) 1744, from Fr. accompagnement (13c.), from accompagner (see ACCOMPANY (Cf. accompany)). Musical sense is earliest …   Etymology dictionary

  • accompaniment — ► NOUN 1) a musical part which accompanies an instrument, voice, or group. 2) something that supplements or complements something else …   English terms dictionary

  • Accompaniment — A typical accompaniment pattern of a Mozart concerto or aria.  Play ( …   Wikipedia

  • accompaniment — noun 1 things that go or happen together ADJECTIVE ▪ essential, ideal, perfect ▪ delicious, good VERB + ACCOMPANIMENT ▪ be …   Collocations dictionary

  • accompaniment — /euh kum peuh ni meuhnt, euh kump ni /, n. 1. something incidental or added for ornament, symmetry, etc. 2. Music. a part in a composition designed to serve as background and support for more important parts. [1725 35; ACCOMPANY + MENT] * * * ▪… …   Universalium

  • accompaniment — n. 1) an accompaniment to (a piano accompaniment to a song) 2) to the accompaniment of (to the accompaniment of soft music) * * * [ə kʌmp(ə)nɪmənt] an accompaniment to (a piano accompaniment to a song) to the accompaniment of (to the… …   Combinatory dictionary

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