accompany

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To be or go with as a companion.
2. v. To add to; supplement: a dish best accompanied with a robust wine.
3. v. To coexist or occur with.
4. v. Music To perform an accompaniment to.
5. v. Music To play an accompaniment.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To be or exist in company with; be joined in association or combination; constitute an adjunct or concomitant to: as, thunder accompanies lightning; an insult accompanied by or with a blow; the President's message and accompanying documents.
2. To keep company with; be associated in intimacy or companionship; act as companion to.
3. To go along or in company with; attend or join in movement or action: as, to accompany a friend on a walk or journey; men-of-war formerly accompanied fleets of merchant ships; he was everywhere accompanied by (not with) his dog.
4. To put in company (with); cause to be or go along (with); combine; associate: as, to accompany a remark with (not by) a bow; he accompanied his speech with rapid gestures.
5. In music, to play or sing an accompaniment to or for: as, he accompanied her on the piano.
6. To cohabit with.
7. Synonyms To attend, escort, wait on, go with, convoy, be associated with, coexist.
8. To be a companion or associate: as, to accompany with others. To cohabit.
9. In music, to perform the accompaniment in a composition; especially, to perform the instrumental part of a mixed vocal and instrumental piece.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
2. v. transitive To supplement with; add to.
3. v. intransitive, music To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
4. v. transitive, music To perform an accompanying part next to another instrument.
5. v. intransitive, obsolete To associate in a company; to keep company.
6. v. intransitive, obsolete To cohabit (with).
7. v. transitive, obsolete To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by.
2. v. obsolete To cohabit with.
3. v. obsolete To associate in a company; to keep company.
4. v. obsolete To cohabit (with).
5. v. (Mus.) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. go or travel along with
2. v. be present or associated with an event or entity
3. v. perform an accompaniment to
4. v. be a companion to somebody