unaccompanied [uhn-uh-kuhm-puh-need] SynonymsExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for unaccompanied on Thesaurus.com adjective
- not accompanied; alone: The shipment arrived unaccompanied by an invoice.
- Music. without an accompaniment: a sonata for unaccompanied violin.
Origin of unaccompanied 1535–45; un-1 + accompanied Synonyms for unaccompanied See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.com 1. solitary, lone, unattended. Related Words for unaccompanied deserted, unattended, solo, abandoned, apart, detached, hermit, individual, isolate, isolated, lone, loner, odd, removed, single, solitary, stag, unescorted Examples from the Web for unaccompanied Contemporary Examples of unaccompanied
But the truth revealed itself this year when thousands upon thousands of unaccompanied children simply walked to this country.
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Doug McIntyre
November 14, 2014
A decade ago, he was also an unaccompanied minor hoping to make it to America.
The Border Kid Crisis Hits the Courts
Caitlin Dickson
September 19, 2014
Close to 50,000 unaccompanied Central American minors showed up at the southwest border this year.
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Caitlin Dickson
September 3, 2014
Contrast that to the 50,000 or so unaccompanied minors at our border with Mexico.
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Gene Robinson
July 20, 2014
The first human being to come through Ellis Island was an unaccompanied minor.
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Gene Robinson
July 20, 2014
Historical Examples of unaccompanied
It might be called a burlesque, but for the fact that it is unaccompanied by the luxury of legs.
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870
Various
The action was mechanical, and unaccompanied by any thought connected with it.
Robert Hichens
The use of either instrument, when unaccompanied, leads to every sort of irregularity and trickery.
Plato
That is alone which is unaccompanied; that is only of which there is no other.
Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
There had fallen a great deal of rain, but unaccompanied by lightning.
Thomas Hardy
British Dictionary definitions for unaccompanied unaccompanied adjective
- not accompanied
- music
- (of an instrument) playing alone
- (of music for a group of singers) without instrumental accompaniment
Word Origin and History for unaccompanied adj.
1540s, “not in the company of others,” from un- (1) “not” + past participle of accompany. Musical sense is first recorded 1818.