Accompany vs. Escort — What's the Difference?

To be or go with, especially as a companion.

One or more persons accompanying another to guide, protect, or show honor.

To provide with an addition; supplement

A man who is the companion of a woman, especially on a social occasion.

To exist or occur at the same time as

A person, often a prostitute, who is hired to spend time with another as a companion.

(Music) To perform an accompaniment to.

One or more vehicles accompanying another vehicle to guide, protect, or honor its passengers.

(Music) To play an accompaniment.

One or more warships or planes used to defend or protect other craft from enemy attack.

(transitive) To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.

The act of accompanying a person, conveyance, or group as an escort

(transitive) To supplement with; add to.

To accompany or guide, especially as an escort

To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.

A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.

To perform an accompanying part next to (another instrument or musician).

An accompanying person in such a group.

To associate in a company; to keep company.

A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.

To cohabit (with). en

A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.

To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.

An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.

To be found at the same time.

Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.

To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; - followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow.

A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent.

To cohabit with.

To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to

To associate in a company; to keep company.

To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).

To cohabit (with).

To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.

To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.

A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; - applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.

Be associated with;

Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.

Go or travel along with;

To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; - used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.

Perform an accompaniment to;

Someone who escorts and protects a prominent person

Be a companion to somebody

The act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them

An attendant who is employed to accompany someone

A participant in a date;

Accompany as an escort;

Accompany or escort;