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English noun: acquaintance | |||
| 1. | acquaintance (cognition) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | ||
| Synonyms | conversance, conversancy, familiarity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | information | ||
| 2. | acquaintance (state) a relationship less intimate than friendship | ||
| Synonyms | acquaintanceship | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | relationship | ||
| 3. | acquaintance (person) a person with whom you are acquainted | ||
| Samples | I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances. We are friends of the family. | ||
| Synonyms | friend | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bunkmate, campmate, class fellow, classmate, connection, end man, homeboy, messmate, pickup, schoolfellow, schoolmate | ||
| Antonyms | stranger, alien, stranger, unknown | ||
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