acquaintance
Meaning of acquaintance
- knowledge or experience of something.
the pupils had little acquaintance with the language
- a person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.
a wide circle of friends and acquaintances
Middle English (in the sense ‘mutual knowledge, being acquainted’): from Old French acointance, from acointier ‘make known’ (see acquaint).
Information about acquaintance
- It is a name.
- The plural form of acquaintance is: acquaintances.
- Languages in which acquaintance is used:
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Hyphenation of acquaintance
ac-quain-tance
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- acquaintance is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
acquaintance synonyms
Meaning familiarity:
familiarity, conversance, conversancy
Meaning acquaintanceship:
Meaning friend:
Meaning a person who may be approached for information or assistance, especially with regard to one's job:
Meaning a partner or companion in business or at work:
Meaning people with whom one has social or professional contact or to whom one is related, especially those with influence and able to offer one help:
Meaning a state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose:
Meaning a person with whom one works in a profession or business:
Translation of acquaintance
- Spanish: amigo, amiga, conocido, conocida
- German: Bekanntschaft
- French: accointance
- Portuguese: conhecido
- Italian: amico, conoscente
Words that rhyme with acquaintance
ance, saance, absorbance, bobance, disturbance, indisturbance, nondisturbance, perturbance, predisturbance, reprobance, undisturbance, impeccance, insignificance, nonsignificance, omnisignificance, presignificance, scance, signficance, significance, vacance, Sundance, abidance, abondance, abundance, accordance, adance, aidance, appendance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, biddance, breakdance, clogdance, concordance, condordance, contradance, contredance, counterdance, dance, dependance, descendance, disaccordance, discordance, disregardance, exceedance, exundance, forbiddance, foreguidance, guidance