Definition of "accompany"

accompany

/əˈkʌm.pə.ni/

verb
third-person singular simple present accompanies, present participle accompanying, simple past and past participle accompanied
1. (transitive) To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
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  The Persian dames, […] / In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
  1804, Richard Glover, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
  1581, Philip Sidney, An Apology of Poetry, or a Defense of Poesy, Book I
  He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.
  1979, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England
2. (transitive) To supplement with; add to.
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  He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […] , the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
3. (intransitive, music) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
4. (transitive, music) To perform an accompanying part next to (another instrument or musician).
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.
  Quotations
  Men say that they will drive away one another, […] and not accompanied together.
  1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit (with).
7. (transitive, obsolete) To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.
  Quotations
  Gijb, Suche as accompanyeth with man-killers and murtherers.
  1534, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius
8. To be found at the same time.

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accompany

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