Definition of 'accompany'
Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense accompanies, present participle accompanying, past tense, past participle accompanied
1. transitive verb
If you accompany someone, you go somewhere with them.
[formal]
2. transitive verb
If one thing accompanies another, it happens or exists at the same time, or as a result of it.
[formal]
3. transitive verb
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accompany in American English
verb transitiveWord forms: acˈcompanied or acˈcompanying
1.
to go or be together with; attend
3.
to play or sing a musical accompaniment for or to
verb intransitive
SYNONYMY NOTE: accompany means to go or be together with as a companion, associate, attribute, etc., and usually
connotes equality of relationship [he accompanied her to the theater]; attend implies presence either in a subordinate position or to render services, etc. [Dr. Jones attended the patient]; escort, convoy are both applied to the accompanying, as by an armed guard, of persons or things
needing protection ( convoy, esp. in the case of sea travel and escort, in the case of land travel); escort also implies an accompanying as a mark of honor or an act of courtesy; chaperon implies accompaniment, for reasons of propriety, of young unmarried people by an
older or married person4.
to perform a musical accompaniment
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accompany in American English
(əˈkʌmpəni) (verb -nied, -nying)
transitive verb
3. (usually fol. by with)
to put in company with; cause to be or go along; associate
He accompanied his speech with gestures
4. Music
to play or sing an accompaniment to or for
intransitive verb
SYNONYMS 1. accompany, attend, convoy, escort mean to go along with someone (or something). To accompany is to go along as an associate on equal terms: to accompany a friend on a shopping trip. attend implies going along with, usually to render service or perform duties: to attend one's employer on a business trip. To convoy is to accompany (esp. ships) with an armed guard for protection: to convoy a fleet of merchant vessels. To escort is to accompany in order to protect, guard, honor, or show courtesy: to escort a visiting dignitary. 5.
to provide the musical accompaniment
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Word Frequency
accompany in British English
verbWord forms: -nies, -nying, -nied
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Derived forms
accompanier (acˈcompanier) noun
Word origin
C15: from Old French accompaignier, from compaing companion1Examples of 'accompany' in a sentence
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accompany
British English: accompany
/əˈkʌmpənɪ/ VERB
If you accompany someone, you go somewhere with them.
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
- American English: accompany /əˈkʌmpəni/
- Arabic: يُرافِقُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: acompanhar
- Chinese: 陪同
- Croatian: pratiti
- Czech: doprovodit
- Danish: ledsage
- Dutch: begeleiden
- European Spanish: acompañar
- Finnish: tulla mukaan
- French: accompagner
- German: begleiten Person
- Greek: συνοδεύω
- Italian: accompagnare
- Japanese: 同行する
- Korean: 동행하다
- Norwegian: følge
- Polish: towarzyszyć
- European Portuguese: acompanhar
- Romanian: a acompania
- Russian: сопровождать
- Spanish: acompañar
- Swedish: följa med
- Thai: ไปด้วยกัน
- Turkish: eşlik etmek yanında gitmek
- Ukrainian: супроводжувати
- Vietnamese: đi cùng
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