What does acquaintance mean?
Definitions for acquaintance
ac·quain·tance
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word acquaintance.
Princeton's WordNet
acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy(noun)
personal knowledge or information about someone or something
acquaintance, acquaintanceship(noun)
a relationship less intimate than friendship
acquaintance, friend(noun)
a person with whom you are acquainted
"I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"
Wiktionary
acquaintance(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
I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
Etymology: From acointance. Compare French accointance.
acquaintance(Noun)
A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
Etymology: From acointance. Compare French accointance.
Webster Dictionary
Acquaintance(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; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him
Acquaintance(noun)
a person or persons with whom one is acquainted
The Roycroft Dictionary
acquaintance
Any one we bow to politely at the opera or shake hands with warmly in a barroom, but whom we would kick out of our homes. Hence, any one who has refused us a loan.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of acquaintance in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of acquaintance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of acquaintance in a Sentence
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
My son felt he had to do everything in his power to try to rescue a friend and acquaintance.
There is a subtle difference between an acqaintance, a faie-weather friend, and a tru friend. An acquaintance is around you merely to enjoy your company, a fair-weather friend flatters when all is well, but a true friend has your best interests at heart and the strong guts to tell you what you must hear, whether you like it or not. If you're lucky and smart, you will recognize and appreciate your true friend, and will be able to keep safe distance from fair-weather friends and acquaintances.
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- معرفةArabic
- познанство, познайникBulgarian
- ངོ་ཤེས་པTibetan Standard
- konesañsBreton
- conegutCatalan, Valencian
- známýCzech
- Bekannter, Bekannte, Umgang, BekanntschaftGerman
- γνωριμία, γνωστόςGreek
- konatoEsperanto
- junta, conocimiento, conocida, conocido, relación, amistad, tratoSpanish
- آشنا, آشناییPersian
- tuttu, tuttavuus, tuttava, tuttavasuhdeFinnish
- accointance, relation, fréquentationFrench
- ismeretség, ismerősHungarian
- ծանոթ, ծանոթությունArmenian
- conoscenzaItalian
- 知り合い, 知人Japanese
- ការស្គាល់គ្នាKhmer
- ناسیارKurdish
- အသိအကျွမ်းBurmese
- bekendheid, bekende, kennisDutch
- forbindelseNorwegian
- znajomy, znajomość, znajomaPolish
- [[ser]] [[conhecido]], conhecido, conhecimentoPortuguese
- cunoscută, cunoscut, cunoștințăRomanian
- знакомая, знакомство, знакомыйRussian
- pòznanica, pòznanīk, poznánstvoSerbo-Croatian
- známosť, známa, známySlovak
- bekantskap, bekantSwedish
- அறிமுகம்Tamil
- పరిచయముTelugu
- ผู้คุ้นเคยThai
- aşinaTurkish
- tanishuv, tanishUzbek
- người quenVietnamese
- hisevädan, sevädan, jisevädan, sevädVolapük
- 熟人Chinese
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