1 [C] a person that you know but who is not a close friend:
Claire has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. * He's just a business acquaintance. * I bumped into an old acquaintance on the train.
2 [U,C] ~ (with sb) (formal) slight friendship:
He hoped their acquaintance would develop further.
3 [U,C] ~ with sth (formal) knowledge of sth:
I had little acquaintance with modern poetry.
IDIOMS
make sb's acquaintance
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for acquaintance is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is acquaintance a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, acquaintance is tagged as noun.
Does acquaintance appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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