acquaintance

5 definitions • 7 examples

a person that you have met but do not know well:

a business acquaintance

used in some expressions about knowing or meeting people:

I have absolutely no acquaintance with the family.

You have yet to have the pleasure of her acquaintance.

A small girl of my acquaintance insists on eating cornflakes without milk, flake by flake.

on further acquaintance I wasn't sure about Darryl when I first met her, but on further acquaintance I rather like her.

knowledge of a subject:

acquaintance with Sadly, my acquaintance with Spanish literature is rather limited.

a person whom you know but do not know well and who is therefore not exactly a friend

Acquaintance is also knowledge about something:

[ U ] The young have little acquaintance with real-life tragedy.