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
Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man.
personal knowledge or information about someone or something a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"
If you have an acquaintance with someone, you have met them and you know them. a writer who becomes involved in a real murder mystery through his acquaintance with a police officer
Your acquaintance with a subject is your knowledge or experience of it. They had little or no acquaintance with philosophy or history
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
When you make someone's acquaintance, you meet them for the first time and get to know them a little. I first made his acquaintance in the early 1960s
An acquaintance is someone who you have met and know slightly, but not well. The proprietor was an old acquaintance of his