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# accompaniment

«accompaniment» in Mova's school dictionary: **music played to support a singer or another instrument…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an accompaniment, accompaniments)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (music) An accompaniment is music played to support a singer or another instrument, like piano music behind a song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accompaniment/#m1)

2) An accompaniment is something that goes well with something else, especially food: «Chips are a good accompaniment to fish.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accompaniment/#m2)

3) «To the accompaniment of» means while a sound is going on: «to the accompaniment of cheers». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accompaniment/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons, the melody is the tune and the accompaniment supports it (chords, rhythm); a pianist accompanies the choir. In cooking and menus, sauces and side dishes are accompaniments. In stories, things happen «to the accompaniment of» thunder or laughter. Phrases: «piano accompaniment», «without accompaniment» (a cappella), «to the accompaniment of».

### examples

- The choir sang with a piano accompaniment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accompaniment/#x1)
- Our teacher played the guitar accompaniment while we sang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accompaniment/#x2)
- Gravy is the perfect accompaniment to roast beef. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accompaniment/#x3)
- The team walked out to the accompaniment of loud cheers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accompaniment/#x4)
- She sang without accompaniment, all alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accompaniment/#x5)
- Rice is a tasty accompaniment to curry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accompaniment/#x6)
- At these words Amina fetched a lute from a case of yellow satin and gave it to Sadie, who sang several songs to its accompaniment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accompaniment/#x7)

### note

Countable. Long spelling: ac-com-pan-i-ment (the «y» of «accompany» changes to «i»). Verb: accompany; a person who plays it is an accompanist. Singing «a cappella» means without instrumental accompaniment.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «accompaniment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accompaniment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.