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acquaintance

[ uh-kweyn-tns ]

noun

  1. a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
  2. 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.

  3. personal knowledge as a result of study, experience, etc.:

    a good acquaintance with French wines.

    Synonyms: ,

  4. (used with a plural verb) the persons with whom one is acquainted.


acquaintance

/ əˈɱɪԳəԲ /

noun

  1. a person with whom one has been in contact but who is not a close friend
  2. knowledge of a person or thing, esp when slight
  3. make the acquaintance of
    to come into social contact with
  4. those persons collectively whom one knows
  5. 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 )
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܲԳٲԳˌ󾱱, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ԴDz··ܲԳ·Գ noun
  • ԴDz··ܲԳ·Գ·ship noun
  • ··ܲԳ·Գ noun
  • ···ܲԳ·Գ noun
  • ··ܲԳ·Գ noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of acquaintance1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English acoyntaunce, aqueinta(u)nce, from Old French acointance; equivalent to acquaint + -ance
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Idioms and Phrases

see nodding acquaintance ; scrape up an acquaintance .
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Synonym Study

Acquaintance, associate, companion, friend refer to a person with whom one is in contact. An acquaintance is someone recognized by sight or someone known, though not intimately: a casual acquaintance. An associate is a person who is often in one's company, usually because of some work, enterprise, or pursuit in common: a business associate. A companion is a person who shares one's activities, fate, or condition: a traveling companion; companion in despair. A friend is a person with whom one is on intimate terms and for whom one feels a warm affection: a trusted friend.
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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.

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Morgan was impatient with acquaintances who wished to compress all these considerations into a single all-purpose maxim.

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Some had never met Wall, while others only knew her as a passing acquaintance.

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For these friends — in a lot of cases, "warm acquaintances" is a better fit — the list of commonalities might end there.

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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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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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