accompaniment
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.
Origin of accompaniment
1Other words from accompaniment
- non·ac·com·pa·ni·ment, noun
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How to use accompaniment in a sentence
He directed the Ninth Symphony, and played twice himself with orchestral accompaniments.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayThe mother played her accompaniments and at the same time watched her daughter with greedy admiration and nervous apprehension.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinHe was something of a musician, too, and played the accompaniments for the girls who sang in The Spring Road.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonOrgan accompaniments help up good choirs and materially drown the defects of bad ones.
Our Churches and Chapels | AtticusThese unwonted accompaniments of a bachelor supper were looked upon with an evil eye by some of the guests.
Alone | Marion Harland
British Dictionary definitions for accompaniment
/ (əˈkʌmpənɪmənt, əˈkʌmpnɪ-) /
something that accompanies or is served or used with something else
something inessential or subsidiary that is added, as for ornament or symmetry
music a subordinate part for an instrument, voices, or an orchestra
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