unaccompanied
Americanadjective
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not accompanied; alone.
The shipment arrived unaccompanied by an invoice.
- Synonyms:
- unattended, lone, solitary
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Music. without an accompaniment.
a sonata for unaccompanied violin.
adjective
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not accompanied
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music
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(of an instrument) playing alone
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(of music for a group of singers) without instrumental accompaniment
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Etymology
Origin of unaccompanied
1535–45; un- 1 + accompanied ( def. )
Explanation
When you show up on your own at a social function, you are unaccompanied, meaning you’ve got no date. Use the word unaccompanied to describe someone who is "flying solo," meaning without a date or companion. You may have seen signs on doors of stores that say "No unaccompanied children allowed." This means kids need to have an adult with them, presumably because the store is full of breakables. In music, if you play or sing a solo, you are unaccompanied by other musicians or singers. If you perform that solo while at a party, without a date, then you’re unaccompanied on both levels.
Vocabulary lists containing unaccompanied
"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act I
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Unit 1: Telling Details
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for March 13–March 19, 2021
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Example Sentences
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Unaccompanied child migrants are processed through the care system rather than the asylum system, which can make it easier to stay in the country.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
Unaccompanied children are exempt, raising the possibility that some parents may send their sons and daughters across the border without them.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024
The agreement originally applied only to Unaccompanied Alien Children, or those who showed up at the border without parents and who are seen as the most vulnerable victims in the immigration debate.
From Washington Times • Sep. 19, 2023
Lomberg helped choose the selections, lobbying for works with discernible structures: the systole-diastole of a human heartbeat, the crystalline architecture of Bach’s “Third Partita for Unaccompanied Violin.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2023
Unaccompanied by the criticisms a biologist would have to make on the method of their ascertainment and validity, not to mention their significance, such lists can easily do—and probably have done—more harm than good.
From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Knight, Melvin Moses
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