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Unaccompanied

Definition: Unaccompanied

Unaccompanied

Adjective

1. Without accompaniment or companions; "the soloist sang unaccompanied"; "it had dramatic energy unaccompanied by an adequate sense of dramatic form"; "unaccompanied women were excluded".

Adverb

1. Without anybody else; "the child stayed home alone"; "he flew solo".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unaccompanied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Unaccompanied

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
UNAMEnglishUnaccompanied Asylum-Seeker MinorPublic Administration, Law

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Unaccompanied

Synonyms: alone (adv), solo (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: accompanied (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unaccompanied

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Unity

Unaccompanied, unattended; solus, single-handed; singular, odd, unique, unrepeated, azygous, first and last; isolated; (disjoined); insular.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unaccompanied

English words defined with "unaccompanied": By herself, By himselfmadrigal, motetNatural philosophypitch pipesolovelleity. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unaccompanied": AloneCHILDREN'S ATTENDANTHOST/HOSTESS, HEADOnlyPASSENGER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVEunaccompanied mode. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Unaccompanied

DomainTitle

Books

  • 6 Unaccompanied Solos Snare Drum (reference)

  • An Essay on Modern Unaccompanied Song (reference)

  • Unaccompanied Children: Care and Protection in Wars, Natural Disasters and Refugee Movements (reference)

  • UNACCOMPANIED SOLOS/VOL 5/MAS (reference)

  • Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unaccompanied

SubjectTopicQuote

Children

United Kingdom

According to the report, "Separated Children in the UK," many social services agencies provided inadequate care to unaccompanied minors seeking asylum (of which there were 2,735 in 2000). The report states that the UK lacked a strategic approach to the reception and care of separated refugee children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Austria

The care of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers also has been inadequate. (references)

Poland

In 2000 the UNHCR expressed concern over the fate of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the country. (references)

Political Economy

OMAN

Visa denials are not unusual for unaccompanied women tourists and young adult males. (references)

Trade

Venezuela

Samples arriving unaccompanied as freight are never considered as such, unless declared as having no commercial value and prepared in such a form that they cannot be sold commercially. (references)

Nigeria

All unaccompanied goods, irrespective of value except personal effects and imports by diplomatic, consular and international organizations, are subject to pre-shipment inspection and must be accompanied by Inspection Duty Report (IDR). (references)

Travel

Ghana

Unaccompanied bona fide personal and household effects sent in advance must be entered on a Passenger Unaccompanied Baggage Declaration (PUBD) form at the time of arrival. (references)

Russia

Moscow, travelers can generally ride overnight trains, although unaccompanied passengers are reminded to keep an eye on their valuables and lock their doors at night (if in a sleeping compartment), as some incidents of pick-pocketing have been reported. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

In October 2000, taxi drivers were warned by the PVSV not to pick up unaccompanied female passengers at risk of having their driving privileges revoked. (references)

Worker Rights

Albania

Italian sources believe that there are more than 6,000 unaccompanied minors in Italian institutions such as orphanages and child centers. (references)

Tajikistan

They also may employ document falsification services in order to escape restrictions such as those in the UAE, where a woman under 31 may not enter the country unaccompanied by her parents or spouse. (references)

Uzbekistan

Border guards at airports were directed to give more scrutiny to unaccompanied young women traveling to Turkey, the UAE, and South Korea; they are authorized to deny such women permission to leave the country. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unaccompanied

"Unaccompanied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unaccompanied" is used about 132 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%13227,743

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Unaccompanied

Expressions using "unaccompanied": active mode/road unaccompanied transport unaccompanied baggage unaccompanied combined transport unaccompanied luggage unaccompanied minor unaccompanied mode unaccompanied transport. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unaccompanied

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unaccompanied

9

unaccompanied minors

6

minor unaccompanied

4

unaccompanied baggage

3

airline child ticket unaccompanied

2

child flight unaccompanied

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unaccompanied

Language Translations for "unaccompanied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i vetëm (all, alone, lone, lonesome, one, only, single, Singleton, sole, solitary, solo, sporadic, unique, very), i pashoqëruar (unsociable). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غير مصحوب, ‏غير مصاحب. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сам (alone, lone, lonely, odd, oneself, single, single handed, singly, solitary, solo, solus, yourself), непридружен (unattended), без акомпанимент. (various references)

   

Czech

  

sólový (solo), sám (alone, by himself, himself, itself, of one's own, oneself, own, self, sole), bez doprovodu (unattended). (various references)

   

Danish

  

uledsaget mindreårig (unaccompanied minor), uledsaget kombineret transport (unaccompanied combined transport), smittede uden symptomer (infection unaccompanied by symptoms), KTUL (unaccompanied combined transport), kombineret transport uledsaget (unaccompanied combined transport), ikke ledsaget rejsegods (unaccompanied luggage), børnebefordringstjeneste (unaccompanied minors service), Autobefordring (unaccompanied car service). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

symptoomloze drager (infection unaccompanied by symptoms), symptoomloos virusdrager (infection unaccompanied by symptoms), onbegeleide bagage (unaccompanied luggage), niet-begeleid minderjarige (unaccompanied minor), niet-begeleid gecombineerd vervoer (unaccompanied combined transport), minderjarige zonder geleide (unaccompanied minor), kinderbegeleidingsdienst (unaccompanied minors service), GVZB (unaccompanied combined transport), gecombineerd vervoer zonder begeleiding:GV ZB (unaccompanied combined transport), gecombineerd vervoer zonder begeleiding (unaccompanied combined transport), auto-expresdienst (unaccompanied car service), alleenreizende kinderen (unaccompanied children). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تنها (Alone, Exclusive, Just, Lone, Lonely, Mere, Only, Recluse, Single, Sole, Solitary), بدون ملتزمین رکاب , بدون مصاحب , بدون همراه . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yksinään (alone, by oneself, on one's own). (various references)

   

French

  

seul, sans accompagnement, non accompagné. (various references)

   

German

  

unbegleitet (unattended, unchaperoned). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ασυνόδευτοσ (unattended). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לב" (alone, apart, felt, separately), בלי ליווי. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kíséret nélküli (unattended, unescorted). (various references)

   

Italian

  

solo (alone, just, lone, lonely, lonesome, mere, only, single, sole, solidly, solitary, unique, very), senza accompagnamento. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

アドレス帳 (address book, addressing, adrenalin, advisor, anachronism, anagram, analog computer, analog digital, Anaphylaxie, anarchism, anarchist, anarchy, anathema, announce, announcement, announcer, unaccompanied baggage). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

アナカン (unaccompanied baggage). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lomarcan (a solitary person, alone, lonely, singleton, singly, solitary), gyn sheshaghtys (unattended, unattended as person), gyn sheshaght. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

accompaniedunay

   

Portuguese

  

sem companhia (lonely), não acompanhado, desacompanhado (alone, unattended). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

neacompaniat, neînsoţit. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

не сопровождаемый, без аккомпанемента. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bez pratnje (unattended, unattending), bez pratioca. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sin acompañamiento, no acompañado. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utan sällskap, utan ockompanjemang, oackompanjerad. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yalnız (alone, by yourself, exclusively, isolated, just, lone, lonely, lonesome, merely, on one's tod, only, private, single handed, singly, sole, solitarily, solitary, unattended), tek başına (alone, by itself, by oneself, on one's own, on one's tod, separately, sequestered, single handed, singly, unaided), refakâtsiz (unattended). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

не супроводжуваний (unattended), без акомпанементу. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không có người đi theo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Unaccompanied

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

incomitatus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Rhyming with "Unaccompanied"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unaccompanied" (pronounced u'nuku"mpunēd)
9-u k u" m p u n ē daccompanied.
4-u n ē dmutinied.
3-n ē dhackneyed, journeyed, moneyed, monied, ponied.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unaccompanied

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-i-m-n-n-o-p-u"

-2 letters: accompanied, nonacademic.

-3 letters: unacademic.

-4 letters: companied, compendia, dominance, pneumonia, pneumonic.

-5 letters: academic, amandine, caducean, canopied, comedian, daemonic, demoniac, demonian, dopamine, maenadic, mandioca, monecian, occupied, pandemic, uncoined.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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