acquaintance

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

Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man.

A person or persons with whom one is acquainted

Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.

{n} familiarity, knowledge, fellow ship, a friend, a person with whom we converse

A person whom we know well enough to borrow from , but not well enough to lend to A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous

a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"

friend, someone whom you know

Someone not knowing well

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personal knowledge or information about someone or something

a person that you know but do not know very well and therefore do not consider truly a friend

{i} familiarity; knowledge, awareness; person one knows slightly

personal knowledge or information about someone or something a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"

a relationship less intimate than friendship

If you have an acquaintance with someone, you have met them and you know them. a writer who becomes involved in a real murder mystery through his acquaintance with a police officer

Your acquaintance with a subject is your knowledge or experience of it. They had little or no acquaintance with philosophy or history

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

When you make someone's acquaintance, you meet them for the first time and get to know them a little. I first made his acquaintance in the early 1960s

An acquaintance is someone who you have met and know slightly, but not well. The proprietor was an old acquaintance of his

acquaintance rape

rape carried out by a person who is known to the victim

acquaintance rape

Rape perpetrated by someone known to the victim. a crime in which a person forces someone they know to have sex with them = date rape

acquaint

To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by 'with' (formerly, also, by 'of'), or by 'that', introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act

I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. -William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, IV-i.

acquaint

To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by 'with'

A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. -Isaiah 53:3.

acquaint

Acquainted

I'm not acquainted with her. - I am not acquainted with her.

I believe Tom is acquainted with Mary. - I think Tom is acquainted with Mary.

acquaintanceship

The state of being acquainted; acquaintance

acquaintanceship

An acquaintance

acquaint

to make familiar or conversant

make the acquaintance of someone

meet someone, meet a person

acquaint

{v} to inform, make known, declare

Acquaint

make familiar or acquainted; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings"

Acquaint

inform; "Please acquaint your colleagues of your plans to move"

Acquaint

cause to come to know personally; "permit me to acquaint you with my son"; "introduce the new neighbors to the community"

Acquaintanceship

a relationship less intimate than friendship

An acquaintance

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acquaint

inform; "Please acquaint your colleagues of your plans to move

acquaint

To familiarize; to accustom

acquaint

{f} make familiar; present someone, introduce someone; make known

acquaint

To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with

acquaint

To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act

acquaint

To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; followed by with

acquaint

If you acquaint someone with something, you tell them about it so that they know it. If you acquaint yourself with something, you learn about it. efforts to acquaint the public with their rights under the new law I want to acquaint myself with your strengths and weaknesses. see also acquainted = familiarize

acquaint

To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act

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