acquaintance

Definition of Acquaintance in English :

see synonyms of acquaintance

Noun

1. acquaintance, conversance, conversancy, familiarity

personal knowledge or information about someone or something

2. acquaintance, acquaintanceship

a relationship less intimate than friendship

acquaintanceship

3. acquaintance, friend

a person with whom you are acquainted

Example Sentences:
'I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances'
'we are friends of the family'

friend

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Acquaintance

see synonyms of acquaintance

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

4.

those persons collectively whom one knows

5. philosophy

the relation between a knower and the object of his or her knowledge, as contrasted with knowledge by description (esp in the phrase knowledge by acquaintance)

Acquaintance

see synonyms of acquaintance

noun

1.

knowledge (of something) gotten from personal experience or study of it

an intimate acquaintance with the plays of Jonson

2.

the state or relation of being acquainted (with someone)

3.

a person or persons whom one knows, but not intimately

Acquaintance

see synonyms of acquaintance

n.

1.

a. Knowledge of a person acquired by a relationship less intimate than friendship.

b. A relationship based on such knowledge: struck up an acquaintance with our new neighbor.

2. A person whom one knows.

3. Knowledge or information about something or someone: has a passing acquaintance with Chinese history.

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