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Acquaintance

Acquaintance Meaning & Definition
Acquaintance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Acquaintance?

[n] personal knowledge or information about someone or something
[n] a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"
[n] a relationship less intimate than friendship

Synonyms | Synonyms for Acquaintance: acquaintanceship | conversance | conversancy | familiarity | friend

Related Terms | Find terms related to Acquaintance: 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 | 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

See Also | bunkmate | campmate | class fellow | classmate | connection | end man | homeboy | human | individual | information | messmate | mortal | person | pickup | relationship | schoolfellow | schoolmate | somebody | someone | soul

Acquaintance In Webster's Dictionary

\Ac*quaint"ance\, n. [OE. aqueintance, OF. acointance, fr. acointier. See {Acquaint}.] 1. 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; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. --Sir W. Jones. 2. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. --Macaulay. Note: In this sense the collective term acquaintance was formerly both singular and plural, but it is now commonly singular, and has the regular plural acquaintances. {To be of acquaintance}, to be intimate. {To take acquaintance of} or {with}, to make the acquaintance of. [Obs.] Syn: Familiarity; intimacy; fellowship; knowledge. Usage: {Acquaintance}, {Familiarity}, {Intimacy}. These words mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, the intimacy of established friendship. Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him. --Addison. We contract at last such a familiarity with them as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds. --Atterbury. It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue. --Rogers.

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