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Acquaintanceship

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Noun

1. acquaintance, acquaintanceship

a relationship less intimate than friendship

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Acquaintanceship

see synonyms of acquaintanceship
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)

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Acquaintanceship

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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

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Acquaintanceship

see synonyms of acquaintanceship
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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