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Acquaintance
//əˈkweɪntəns// noun
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Noun
- 1 A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship. uncountable
"I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him."
- 2 personal knowledge or information about someone or something wordnet
- 3 A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. countable
"Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson."
- 4 a person with whom you are acquainted wordnet
- 5 Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord). uncountable
"Having therefore conſulted with my Wife, and ſome of my Acquaintance, I determined to go again to Sea."
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- 6 a relationship less intimate than friendship wordnet
- 7 Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.). countable, uncountable
"The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance."
Etymology
From Middle English aqueyntaunce, from Anglo-Norman aquaintaunce, aqueintance, Old French acointance (“friendship, familiarity”), from Old French acointier (“to acquaint”). Compare French accointance. Morphologically acquaint + -ance.
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