accessory
pronunciation
How to pronounce accessory in British English:
UK [əkˈsesəri]
How to pronounce accessory in American English:
US [əkˈsesəri]
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- Noun:
- clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing
- a supplementary component that improves capability
- someone who helps another person commit a crime
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- Adjective:
- relating to something that is added but is not essential
Word Origin
- accessory (n.)
- also accessary, early 15c. as a legal term in the criminal sense of "one aiding in a crime;" also "that which is subordinate to something else," from Late Latin accessorius, from accessor, agent noun from accedere "to approach" (see accede). Attested from 1896 as "woman's smaller articles of dress;" hence accessorize.
- accessory (adj.)
- 1550s, "subordinate," from Late Latin accessorius, from accessor, agent noun from accedere "to approach" (see accede). Meaning "aiding in crime" is from c. 1600.
Synonym
Example
- 1. One reason is that people may not want to buy a charging accessory when gadgets come with their own cords .
- 2. The other accessory is a $ 100 keyboard folio that lets you prop up the tablet to use with a physical qwerty keyboard .
- 3. Mg siegler irrationally loves the iphone and it has become an important fashion accessory and self confidence crutch in his san francisco hipster lifestyle .
- 4. They created a new hdmi accessory that works on both ipad 1 and 2 and also included display mirroring capability on ipad 2 , which is a big improvement in my book .
- 5. In may , google released its android open accessory development kit , which gives the operating system to tinkerers who want to build their own android-powered devices .