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accompaniment

[uh-kuhm-puh-ni-muh

nt, uh-kuhmp-ni-]

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noun

something incidental or added for ornament, symmetry, etc.

Music. a part in a composition designed to serve as background and support for more important parts.

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Origin:
1725–35; accompany + -ment

Related forms

non·ac·com·pa·ni·ment, noun

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Example Sentences

The typical accompaniment to a rice dish cooked in a paella is allioli.

He also maintained a family group during these years, singing traditional songs to the accompaniment of the xalam spike lute.

Two guitarists sing in falsetto accompaniment by a violinist and improvisation is common.

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The typical accompaniment to a rice dish cooked in a paella is allioli.

He also maintained a family group during these years, singing traditional songs to the accompaniment of the xalam spike lute.

Two guitarists sing in falsetto accompaniment by a violinist and improvisation is common.

Choose one accompaniment for each cheese, and serve crackers and toasted.

The table has a built-in amplifier and speakers, and even provides background accompaniment from its digital memory.

It may mark the recurrence of a period of increased sun spots, with the invariable accompaniment of increased solar radiation.

Chill, if desired, and serve as an appetizer with tortilla chips or as a topping or accompaniment for any dish.

During the quietest part of the second movement, a crow cawed in primal accompaniment.

The dish requires nothing more than a big green salad as accompaniment.

The development of rioting as an adjunct and accompaniment of the street car strike is an interesting phenomenon.

John" to the accompaniment of traditional folkloric ensembles from.

Grilling whole gourmet mushrooms as an accompaniment is a good way to keep all the cooking outside.

The accompaniment for it blended recorded music with live music by the company's chorus and instrumentalists.

Apeland's harmonium accompaniment swelled and receded in melancholy harmonies.

Galen serves this easy bread as an accompaniment to bacon omelets.

By improving mood, exercise can be a beneficial accompaniment to other kinds of treatment for mental illness.

Serve as a dip with rustic bread, or as an accompaniment to roast pork or lamb.

In this lesson, students explore the way poetry's unique rhythms can be further enhanced by musical accompaniment.

Witherspoon has accompaniment that is particularly notable.

Bush, to the accompaniment of the squawking of birds.

Amos had no accompaniment other than her own grand piano.

The crowd stood and sang in accompaniment to the music.

In the opening andante, a tender, songful melody is spun over a rippling accompaniment.

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World English Dictionary

accompaniment (əˈkʌmpənɪmənt, əˈkʌmpnɪ-)

—n
1.	something that accompanies or is served or used with something else
2.	something inessential or subsidiary that is added, as for ornament or symmetry
3.	music a subordinate part for an instrument, voices, or an orchestra

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Word Origin & History

accompaniment

1744, from Fr. accompagnement (13c.), from accompagner (see accompany). Musical sense is earliest. First record of accompanist "performer who takes the accompanying part in music" is from 1833.

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