Definizione monolingua

accompany

accompany (third-person singular simple present accompanies, present participle accompanying, simple past and past participle accompanied)

1. (intransitive, music) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
2. (transitive) To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.

   He accompanied his speech with a bow.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Richard Glover:

     The Persian dames, … / In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.

   • 1581, Philip Sidney, An Apology of Poetry, or a Defense of Poesy, Book I:

     They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

   • 1979, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England:

     He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.

3. (transitive, music) To perform an accompanying part next to another instrument.

   The strings were accompanied by two woodwinds.

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Holland:

     Men say that they will drive away one another, … and not accompany together.

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit (with).
6. (transitive, obsolete) To cohabit with.

Definizione dizionario accompany

accompagnare

accompagnarsi

accompagno

associare a

ricondurre

scortare

servire

Altri significati:

(intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit (with).

go with or together

(intransitive, music) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.

(transitive) To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.

accompany (as a card does a gift)

(transitive, obsolete) To cohabit with.

(intransitive, obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.

abide (by the rules)

(transitive, music) To perform an accompanying part next to another instrument.