accompany

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 7.84 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb 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.

2. verb To supplement with; add to.
3. verb To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
4. verb To perform an accompanying part next to (another instrument or musician).

   The strings were accompanied by two woodwinds.

5. verb To associate in a company; to keep company.
6. verb To cohabit (with). (Can we add an example for this sense?)
7. verb To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.
8. verb To be found at the same time.

   Thunder almost always accompanies lightning during a rain storm.

Similar words

keep company companion company follow come with go with attach to accommodate assist help

Often followed by

the him them me her a it us you his

Word family

accompanied accompanies accompaniment accompanying