accompaniment

English

Etymology

From French accompagnement.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ə-kŭmʹpə-nē-mənt, IPA: /əˈkʌmpənimənt/, SAMPA: /@"kVmp@nim@nt/

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Noun

accompaniment (plural accompaniments)

1. That which gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation.
2. That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
3. (music) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.

Translations

That which gives support or adds to the background in music

Bulgarian: съпровод (bg) Catalan: segona (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 伴奏 (zh) (bànzòu) French: accompagnement (fr) m. German: Begleitung (de) f.

Japanese: 伴奏 (ja) (ばんそう, bansō) Russian: аккомпанемент (ru) (akkompanemént) m. Spanish: acompañamiento (es) m. Swedish: ackompanjemang (sv), komp (sv) n. Turkish: eşlik (tr)

That which accompanies

Bulgarian: съпровод (bg) French: accompagnement (fr) m. German: Begleitung (de) f.

Russian: сопровождение (ru) (soprovoždénije) n. Turkish: eşlik (tr)

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Albanian: shoqërim French: accompagnement Interlingua: accompaniamento

Italian: accompagnamento Portuguese: acompanhamento Slovene: spremljava f.