acquaintanceship

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ac·quain·tance

(ə-kwān′təns)

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.

Idiom:

make (someone's) acquaintance

To meet someone for the first time: I made his acquaintance at a business conference.

ac·quain′tance·ship′ n.

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Noun

acquaintanceship - a relationship less intimate than friendship

acquaintance

relationship - a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries

Translations

conoscenza

acquaintanceship

[əˈkweɪntənsʃɪp] N

1. (between two people) → relaciones fpl

2. (= knowledge) → conocimiento m (with de) → familiaridad f (with con)

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acquaintanceship

n → Bekanntschaft f → (with mit)

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TO THE FRIEND WHO, THOUGH IN THE EARLY STAGES OF OUR ACQUAINTANCESHIP DID OFTTIMES DISAGREE WITH ME, HAS SINCE BECOME TO BE MY VERY WARMEST COMRADE--

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Jansenius, feared for Agatha, who, time after time when a callow gentleman of wealth and position was introduced to her, drove him brusquely away as soon as he ventured to hint that 200 his affections were concerned in their acquaintanceship. The anxious mother had to console herself with the fact that her daughter drove away the ineligible as ruthlessly as the eligible, formed no unworldly attachments, was still very young, and would grow less coy as she advanced in years and in what Mrs.

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In the fall after the beginning of her acquaintanceship with him she married Doc- tor Reefy and in the following spring she died.

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My acquaintanceship with a party to the coming contest had the effect of giving me a kind of personal interest in it; I naturally wished he might win, and it was the reverse of pleasant to learn that he probably would not, because, although he was a notable swordsman, the challenger was held to be his superior.

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But the dull country town was tiresome to him, since his acquaintanceship with livelier regions, and it grew daily more and more so.

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The acquaintanceship of these two friends had been formed in India, when they belonged to the same regiment.

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Somewhere along in this acquaintanceship the idea must have popped into his brain.

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Steadily the former sensation of previous acquaintanceship urged itself upon her.

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Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?

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Without effort, she took them with her into her ever widening circle of acquaintanceship, and the two Avonlea girls found their social pathway at Redmond made very easy and pleasant for them, to the envy and wonderment of the other freshettes, who, lacking Philippa's sponsorship, were doomed to remain rather on the fringe of things during their first college year.

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Tom watched the little lady a great deal, before he ventured on any overtures towards acquaintanceship. He knew an abundance of simple acts to propitiate and invite the approaches of the little people, and he resolved to play his part right skilfully.

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In their long acquaintanceship and intimacy they could not recall a harsh word that had been uttered by Amelia She had been all sweetness and kindness, always thankful, always gentle, even when Mrs.