adjective [notbeforenoun]
1 ~ with sth (formal) familiar with sth, having read, seen or experienced it:
The students are already acquainted with the work of Shakespeare. * Employees should be fully acquainted with emergency procedures.
2 ~ (with sb) not close friends with sb, but having met a few times before:
I am well acquainted with her family. * We got acquainted at the conference (= met and started to get to know each other).
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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 acquainted is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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