acquaintance
pronunciation
How to pronounce acquaintance in British English:
UK [əˈkweɪntəns]
How to pronounce acquaintance in American English:
US [əˈkweɪntəns]
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- Noun:
- personal knowledge or information about someone or something
- a relationship less intimate than friendship
- a person with whom you are acquainted
Word Origin
- acquaintance (n.)
- c. 1300, "state of being acquainted;" late 14c., "person with whom one is acquainted;" also "personal knowledge;" from Old French acointance "acquaintance, friendship, familiarity," noun of action from acointer (see acquaint). Acquaintant (17c.), would have been better in the "person known" sense but is now obsolete.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Another acquaintance is a convention and banquet manager at a prominent resort .
- 2. The volunteers had photos of the romantic partner and of an attractive acquaintance .
- 3. Last week , I e-mailed a tremendously successful old acquaintance about a business idea .
- 4. He had offered to be a 21st-century virtual acquaintance but left open the possibility of developing a more classical friendship .
- 5. One acquaintance says mr diekmann is the only dax-30 chief executive to have worked on every continent .