Acquaintance Definition

ə-kwāntəns
acquaintances
noun
acquaintances
Knowledge of a person acquired by a relationship less intimate than friendship.
American Heritage
Knowledge (of something) gotten from personal experience or study of it.
An intimate acquaintance with the plays of Jonson.
Webster's New World
A relationship based on such knowledge.
Struck up an acquaintance with our new neighbor.
American Heritage
The state or relation of being acquainted (with someone)
Webster's New World
A person whom one knows.
American Heritage
idiom
make (someone's) acquaintance
  • To meet someone for the first time:

    I made his acquaintance at a business conference.

American Heritage
make someone's acquaintance
  • to become an acquaintance of someone
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Acquaintance

Noun

Singular:
acquaintance
Plural:
acquaintances

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Acquaintance

Origin of Acquaintance

  • From Old French acointance. Compare French accointance.

    From Wiktionary

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