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accompanies

accompanies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of accompany.

Meaning of accompany

Verb

accompany (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.
    • Geoffrey accompanied the group on their pilgrimage.
    Synonyms:
    attend, escort, go with
  2. (transitive) To supplement with; add to.
    • 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, →OCLC
  3. (intransitive) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
  4. (transitive) To perform an accompanying part next to (another instrument or musician).
    • The strings were accompanied by two woodwinds.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.
    • 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....
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit (with).

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Accompanies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of accompany.

Words near accompanies in the dictionary

  1. accompaniable
  2. accompanied
  3. accompaniedst
  4. accompanier
  5. accompaniers
  6. accompanies
  7. accompaniest
  8. accompanieth
  9. accompaniment
  10. accompanimental
  11. accompaniments

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