"accompaniment" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˈkʌm.pə.ni.mənt/, /əˈkʌmp.ni.mənt/ Audio: En-us-accompaniment.ogg Forms: accompaniments [plural]
enPR: ə-kŭmʹpə-nē-mənt Etymology: From French accompagnement; equivalent to accompany + -ment. First attested in 1744. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|accompagnement}} French accompagnement, {{suffix|en|accompany|ment}} accompany + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} accompaniment (countable and uncountable, plural accompaniments)
  1. (music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Music Synonyms: comping Translations (music: that which gives support or adds to the background): مُصَاحَبَة (muṣāḥaba) [feminine] (Arabic), съпровод (sǎprovod) (Bulgarian), segona [feminine] (Catalan), acompanyament [masculine] (Catalan), 伴奏 (bànzòu) (Chinese Mandarin), doprovod [masculine] (Czech), begeleiding [feminine] (Dutch), akompanaĵo (Esperanto), säestys (Finnish), komppi (Finnish), accompagnement [masculine] (French), Begleitung [feminine] (German), kíséret (Hungarian), kísérőzene (Hungarian), tionlacan [masculine] (Irish), accompagnamento [masculine] (Italian), 伴奏 (bansō) (alt: ばんそう) (Japanese), сүйемелдеу (süiemeldeu) (Kazakh), 반주 (banju) (Korean), при́дружба (prídružba) [feminine] (Macedonian), akompaniament [masculine] (Polish), acompanhamento [masculine] (Portuguese), acompaniament [neuter] (Romanian), аккомпанеме́нт (akkompanemént) [masculine] (Russian), сопровожде́ние (soprovoždénije) [neuter] (Russian), пра̀тња [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pràtnja [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), acompañamiento [masculine] (Spanish), ackompanjemang (Swedish), komp [neuter] (Swedish), saliw (Tagalog), akompanyamyento (Tagalog), eşlik (Turkish), акомпанеме́нт (akompanemént) [masculine] (Ukrainian), су́провід (súprovid) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: attachment, supplement, adjunct Translations (that which accompanies): съпровод (sǎprovod) (Bulgarian), acompanyament [masculine] (Catalan), lisuke (Finnish), seuralainen (Finnish), accompagnement [masculine] (French), Begleitung [feminine] (German), kíséret (Hungarian), kísérőjelenség (Hungarian), tionlacan [masculine] (Irish), akompaniament [masculine] (Polish), acompanhamento [masculine] (Portuguese), acompaniament [neuter] (Romanian), сопровожде́ние (soprovoždénije) [neuter] (Russian), пра̀тња [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), дода́так [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pràtnja [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), dodátak [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), acompañamiento [masculine] (Spanish), tillbehör [neuter] (Swedish), eşlik (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-accompaniment-en-noun-r467PcfL Categories (other): Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'that which accompanies': 11 89
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: accompanimental, additional accompaniment, nonaccompaniment

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "sense": "that which accompanies",
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          "sense": "that which accompanies",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "lisuke"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "that which accompanies",
      "word": "seuralainen"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "that which accompanies",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "that which accompanies",
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "that which accompanies",
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        "masculine"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "that which accompanies",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "tillbehör"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "that which accompanies",
      "word": "eşlik"
    }
  ],
  "word": "accompaniment"
}

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