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acquaintance

/ʌˈkweɪn.təns/noun3 syllables

Acquaintance means: personal knowledge or information about someone or something.

Synonyms for acquaintance9

noun, as in personal knowledge or information about someone or something

familiarity, conversance, conversancy

noun, as in a relationship less intimate than friendship

acquaintanceship

noun, as in a person with whom you are acquainted

friend

also used for acquaintance

fellowship, intimacy, knowledge, kith

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Opposites of acquaintance

stranger

What does acquaintance mean?3

noun

1

personal knowledge or information about someone or something

2

a relationship less intimate than friendship

3

a person with whom you are acquainted“I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Acquaintance in a sentence

  • He is not a friend, but an acquaintance.CK
  • He is not really a friend, just an acquaintance.CM
  • She had plenty of acquaintances, but no friends.CK
  • She is more of an acquaintance than a friend.TRANG
  • An acquaintance of mine introduced me to his closest friends.unknown
  • The student made acquaintance with that woman last year.marloncori
  • The student became an acquaintance of this girl last year.Scott
  • For me he is neither a brother nor an acquaintance.belgavox

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of acquaintance

as a noun

plural
acquaintances