accompaniment
[uh-kuhm-puh-ni-muh nt, uh-kuhmp-ni-]
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.
Origin of accompaniment
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Related Words for accompaniments
concomitant, attribute, complement, accessory, adjunct, supplement, augmentation, attachment, appendage, attendant, appurtenance, enrichment, enhancement, backing, back, instrument, part, harmony, backgroundExamples from the Web for accompaniments
Historical Examples of accompaniments
Of what value to the salads are the accompaniments often served with them?
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
His followers, that is to say, by repeating His life would experience its accompaniments.
Pax VobiscumHenry Drummond
I arrange her business and I play her accompaniments, and, as I said, I love her and she loves me.
A Singer from the SeaAmelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Now a siege was necessary, with all its accompaniments of blood and woe.
Henry IV, Makers of HistoryJohn S. C. Abbott
And sometimes there would be like accompaniments to meteoric streams.
Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. IHerbert Spencer
accompaniment
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