Acquaintance

//əˈkweɪntəns// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    personal knowledge or information about someone or something wordnet
  3. 3
    A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. countable

    "Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson."

  4. 4
    a person with whom you are acquainted wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    a relationship less intimate than friendship wordnet
  2. 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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