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noun
- Music. a person who plays an accompaniment.
noun
- a person who plays a musical accompaniment for another performer, esp a pianist accompanying a singer
“performer who takes the accompanying part in music,” 1833, from accompany + -ist. Fowler prefers accompanyist.