Definition of acquaintance Acquaintance
/ʌkwejˈntʌns/ - [ukweyntuns] - ac•quaint•ance
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What does acquaintance mean?
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NounPlural: acquaintances |
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| acquaintance - a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family" | ||
| friend | ||
| stranger, alien, unknown anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | ||
| mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
| bunkmate someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself | ||
| campmate someone who lives in the same camp you do | ||
| connection shifting from one form of transportation to another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta" | ||
| end man a man at one end of a row of people | ||
| homeboy a male friend from your neighborhood or hometown | ||
| messmate (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship) | ||
| pickup the act of taking aboard passengers or freight | ||
| class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow, schoolmate an acquaintance that you go to school with | ||
| acquaintance - personal knowledge or information about someone or something | ||
| familiarity, conversance, conversancy | ||
| information (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information" | ||
| acquaintance - a relationship less intimate than friendship | ||
| acquaintanceship | ||
| relationship a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness); "the relationship between mothers and their children" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- acquaintance (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. - acquaintance (Noun)
A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- acquaintance (n.)
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. - acquaintance (n.)
A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
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acquaintance
A person that someone has met repeatedly, and has a superficial knowledge of.
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🔤- acquaintance, noun, singular of acquaintances.
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