English Dictionary

acquaintance

/əˈkweɪntəns/

noun

(uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.

I met an old acquaintance at the party.

意味（1）

(uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.

I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.

意味（2）

(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.

Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.

意味（3）

(uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).

Their mother […] was busy in the mean time in keeping up her connections, as she termed a numerous acquaintance, lest her girls should want a proper introduction into the great world.

意味（4）

Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).

The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.