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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Knowledge of a person acquired by a relationship less intimate than friendship.
- noun A relationship based on such knowledge.
- noun A person whom one knows.
- noun Knowledge or information about something or someone.
- idiom (make (someone's) acquaintance) To meet someone for the first time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being acquainted, or of being more or less intimately conversant (used with reference to both persons and things); knowledge of; experience in: used with with, and formerly sometimes with of.
- noun A person known to one, especially a person with whom one is not on terms of great intimacy: as, he is not a friend, only an acquaintance.
- noun The whole body of those with whom one is acquainted: used as a plural, as if for acquaintances. See
acquaintant .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy
- noun A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
- noun to be intimate.
- noun [Obs.] to make the acquaintance of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable A state of being
acquainted , or of havingintimate , or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained byintercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy - noun countable A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person with whom you are acquainted
- noun personal knowledge or information about someone or something
- noun a relationship less intimate than friendship
Etymologies
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Examples
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If we wished to maintain the view that there is no acquaintance with Self, we might argue as follows: We are acquainted with _acquaintance_, and we know that it is a relation.
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Bertrand Russell 1921
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Then I said that you and I were shocked to find Gladys being charged with witchcraft because we had some acquaintance with her—and then I had to rephrase that because the coroner had never heard of the word acquaintance and wanted to know what it meant.
To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000
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Then I said that you and I were shocked to find Gladys being charged with witchcraft because we had some acquaintance with her—and then I had to rephrase that because the coroner had never heard of the word acquaintance and wanted to know what it meant.
To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000
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Then I said that you and I were shocked to find Gladys being charged with witchcraft because we had some acquaintance with her—and then I had to rephrase that because the coroner had never heard of the word acquaintance and wanted to know what it meant.
To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000
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Then I said that you and I were shocked to find Gladys being charged with witchcraft because we had some acquaintance with her—and then I had to rephrase that because the coroner had never heard of the word acquaintance and wanted to know what it meant.
To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000
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An embarrassing question in any case, and doubly so under the circumstances, because my acquaintance is a very learned man, one of the three or four really first-class minds that Europe produced in his generation; and naturally I, as one of the unlearned, was inclined to regard his lightest word with reverence amounting to awe.
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In fact, I think the relation of subject and object which I call acquaintance is simply the converse of the relation of object and subject which constitutes presentation.
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Bertrand Russell 1921
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The mutual acquaintance is quite the gentleman and has a beautiful family.
Del in KS I had already summised that you are an extaordinary turkey hunter. 2009
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The mutual acquaintance is quite the gentleman and has a beautiful family.
Del in KS I had already summised that you are an extaordinary turkey hunter. 2009
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You seem to think being overly effusive in (mistakenly) praising an acquaintance is the prime issue.
State of the Race: Steve Poizner (R CAND, CA-GOV). | RedState 2010
Related Words
synonyms (112)
Words with the same meaning
- account
- acquaintedness
- advocate
- alter ego
- amigo
- announcement
- appreciation
- apprehension
- associate
- awareness
- backer
- best friend
- blue book
- bosom friend
- briefing
- brother
- bulletin
- casual acquaintance
- close acquaintance
- close friend
- colleague
- communication
- communique
- companion
- comrade
- confidant
- confidante
- consciousness
- corpus
- crony
- data
- datum
- directory
- dispatch
- enlightenment
- evidence
- experience
- expertise
- facts
- factual base
- factual information
- familiar
- familiarity
- familiarization
- favorer
- fellow
- fellow creature
- fellowman
- fellowship
- friend
- gen
- general information
- grasp
- guidebook
- handout
- hard information
- incidental information
- info
- information
- inseparable friend
- instruction
- intelligence
- intimacy
- intimate
- introduction
- inwardness
- ken
- knockdown
- know-how
- knowing
- knowledge
- light
- lover
- mate
- mention
- message
- neighbor
- notice
- notification
- other self
- partisan
- pickup
- practical knowledge
- presentation
- private knowledge
- privity
- promotional material
- proof
- publication
- publicity
- ratio cognoscendi
- release
- report
- repository
- self-knowledge
- sidelight
- statement
- supporter
- sympathizer
- technic
- technics
- technique
- the dope
- the goods
- the know
- the scoop
- transmission
- understanding
- well-wisher
- white book
- white paper
- word
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