acquaintance (redirected from acquaintances)

ac·quain·tance  (-kwntns)

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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ac·quaintance·ship n.

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acquaintance

Noun

1. a person whom one knows slightly

2. slight knowledge of a person or subject

3. make the acquaintance of to come into social contact with

4. the people one knows: an actress of my acquaintance

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	acquaintance - personal knowledge or information about someone or something conversance, conversancy, familiarity information - knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
	2.	acquaintance - a relationship less intimate than friendship acquaintanceship relationship - a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
	3.	acquaintance - a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family" friend individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" bunkmate - someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself campmate - someone who lives in the same camp you do connection - (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship); "he has powerful connections" end man - a man at one end of a row of people homeboy - a male friend from your neighborhood or hometown messmate - (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship) pickup - a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow, schoolmate - an acquaintance that you go to school with stranger, unknown, alien - anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found stranger - an individual that one is not acquainted with

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acquaintance

noun 1. associate, contact, ally, colleague, comrade, confrère << OPPOSITE intimate

noun 2. relationship, association, exchange, connection, intimacy, fellowship, familiarity, companionship, social contact, cognizance, conversance, conversancy << OPPOSITE unfamiliarity

Translations

acquaintance [əˈkweɪntəns] n → conocimiento;

(person) → conocido/a;

to make sb's acquaintance → conocer a algn

acquaintance [əˈkweɪntəns] n → connaissance f;

to make sb's acquaintance → faire la connaissance de qn

acquaintance [əˈkweɪntəns] acquaint n → Bekannte(r) f(m);

(with person) → Bekanntschaft f;

(with subject) → Kenntnis f;

to make sb's acquaintance acquaint → jds Bekanntschaft machen

acquaintance [əˈkweɪntəns] n → conoscenza;

(person) → conoscente m/f;

to make sb's acquaintance → fare la conoscenza di qn