Acquaintance

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Knowledge of a person acquired by a relationship less intimate than friendship.
  • noun. A relationship based on such knowledge.
  • noun. A person whom one knows.
  • noun. Knowledge or information about something or someone.
  • idiom. (make (someone's) acquaintance) To meet someone for the first time.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being acquainted, or of being more or less intimately conversant (used with reference to both persons and things); knowledge of; experience in: used with with, and formerly sometimes with of.
  • noun. A person known to one, especially a person with whom one is not on terms of great intimacy: as, he is not a friend, only an acquaintance.
  • noun. The whole body of those with whom one is acquainted: used as a plural, as if for acquaintances. See acquaintant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy
  • noun. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
  • noun. to be intimate.
  • noun. to make the acquaintance of.
  • noun. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy
  • noun. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person with whom you are acquainted
  • noun. personal knowledge or information about someone or something
  • noun. a relationship less intimate than friendship
  • Word Usage
    "If we wished to maintain the view that there is no acquaintance with Self, we might argue as follows: We are acquainted with _acquaintance_, and we know that it is a relation."
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