accompaniment
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French accompagnement; equivalent to accompany + -ment. First attested in 1744.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]accompaniment (countable and uncountable, plural accompaniments)
- (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.
- Synonym: comping
- Brooks performed a saxophone solo on stage, with Robert as accompaniment on the bass.
- 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.
- Synonyms: attachment, supplement; see also Thesaurus:adjunct
- A side salad is a common accompaniment to a main dish.
- 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
- My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]music: that which gives support or adds to the background
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that which accompanies
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