ACQUAINTANCE


Meaning of ACQUAINTANCE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ əkweɪntəns ]

( acquaintances)

1.

An acquaintance is someone who you have met and know slightly, but not well.

The proprietor was an old acquaintance of his...

N-COUNT : oft with poss

2.

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...

N-VAR : oft poss N , N with n , on N

3.

Your acquaintance with a subject is your knowledge or experience of it. ( FORMAL )

They had little or no acquaintance with philosophy or history...

N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp , oft N with n

4.

When you make someone’s acquaintance , you meet them for the first time and get to know them a little. ( FORMAL )

I first made his acquaintance in the early 1960s...

PHRASE : V inflects

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