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acquaintance
[ uh-kweyn-tns ]
noun
- a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
- the state of being acquainted or casually familiar with someone or something:
As far as I know, no one of my acquaintance has traveled around the world.
- personal knowledge as a result of study, experience, etc.:
a good acquaintance with French wines.
Synonyms: awareness, familiarity
- (used with a plural verb) the persons with whom one is acquainted.
acquaintance
/ əˈkweɪntəns /
noun
- a person with whom one has been in contact but who is not a close friend
- knowledge of a person or thing, esp when slight
- make the acquaintance ofto come into social contact with
- those persons collectively whom one knows
- philosophy the relation between a knower and the object of his knowledge, as contrasted with knowledge by description (esp in the phrase knowledge by acquaintance )
Derived Forms
- acˈquaintanceˌship, noun
Other Words From
- non·ac·quaint·ance noun
- non·ac·quaint·ance·ship noun
- pre·ac·quaint·ance noun
- pseu·do·ac·quaint·ance noun
- re·ac·quaint·ance noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of acquaintance1
Idioms and Phrases
see nodding acquaintance ; scrape up an acquaintance .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Should old acquaintance be forgot, just remember a few of the resolutions the Founding Fathers (would have) made this year.
Another acquaintance described Seevakumaran as “a creep,” who would “constantly hit on women.”
He insulted a female poet of his acquaintance by remarking “that she and her family were Jews.”
Not long ago, I mentioned the Victims of Communism Memorial to an acquaintance.
In the early 2000s, an acquaintance told Sun about the possibility of doing business in Ethiopia.
A child begins to make acquaintance with the images of things when set before a mirror.
He made the acquaintance of some courtiers, who felt or affected an interest in learning and in learned men.
By its operation Gordon Wright, the most sensible man of our acquaintance, is reduced to the level of infancy!
It was the Town Crier, with whom, as with a brother artist, he had picked acquaintance the day before.
For Lettice—the tender woman of his first acquaintance—had obviously experienced a moment of reaction.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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