An acquaintance is someone you know a little about, but they’re not your best friend or anything. Acquaintance is also having knowledge about something specific, like horror films or the farming techniques of Chinese peasants.
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;
Noun
personal knowledge or information about someone or something
Noun
a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"
Noun
a relationship less intimate than friendship
n.
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.
n.
A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
Acquaintance
Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man.2.
Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him.
We contract at last such a familiarity with them as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds.
It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue.
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;
Usage Examples
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
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Other Usage ExamplesProbability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
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