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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: ,
- (used with a plural verb) the persons with whom one is acquainted.
acquaintance
/ əˈɱɪԳəԲ /
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
- ˈܲԳٲԳˌ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ԴDz··ܲԳ·Գ noun
- ԴDz··ܲԳ·Գ·ship noun
- ··ܲԳ·Գ noun
- ···ܲԳ·Գ noun
- ··ܲԳ·Գ noun
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of acquaintance1
Idioms and Phrases
see nodding acquaintance ; scrape up an acquaintance .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Law enforcement officials have found a body in Oxnard that matches the description of a 13-year-old boy who failed to return home after visiting an acquaintance in Lancaster, authorities said.
Morgan was impatient with acquaintances who wished to compress all these considerations into a single all-purpose maxim.
Some had never met Wall, while others only knew her as a passing acquaintance.
For these friends — in a lot of cases, "warm acquaintances" is a better fit — the list of commonalities might end there.
His new acquaintance persuades him to take one of the surviving birds back to his hotel in an attempt to save it, then dashes, leaving him with the now-clean penguin.
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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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