Acquaintance

Noun

 * 1)  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
 * 2)  A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.

Adjectives for Acquaintance
vast; mutual; desirable; intimate; eventful; favorable; brilliant; charitable; prosperous; common; conventional; casual; stray; select; congenial; slight; valued; ingenious; inaccurate; preliminary; fair; imperfect; superficial; extensive; critical; tolerable; nodding; astounding; injudicious; chance; passing; temporary; broad; well-born; garrulous; good-humored; varied (plural); amiable; numerous (pl); bowing; renewed; promiscuous; protracted; professional; informal; cursory; first-hand; incomplete.

Verbs for Acquaintance
bless with -; boast -;  crave -;  dim -; estrange -;  exploit -; greet -;  hold -; lend -; pursue -; put away -; renew -; resume -; strangle -; strike up -; urge -; - creeps; - is estranged; - widens.

Synonyms for Acquaintance
familiarity, fellowship, intimacy, knowledge, cognizance, experience, association, esteem.

Antonyms for Acquaintance
unfamiliarity, inexperience, ignorance, strangeness.

Thesaurus
account; acquaintedness; advocate; alter ego; amigo; announcement; appreciation; apprehension; associate; awareness; backer; best friend; blue book; bosom friend; briefing; brother; bulletin; casual acquaintance; close acquaintance; close friend; colleague; communication; communique; companion; comrade; confidant; confidante; consciousness; corpus; crony; data; datum; directory; dispatch; enlightenment; evidence; experience; expertise; facts; factual base; factual information; familiar; familiarity; familiarization; favorer; fellow; fellow creature; fellowman; friend; gen; general information; grasp; guidebook; handout; hard information; incidental information; info; information; inseparable friend; instruction; intelligence; intimacy; intimate; introduction; inwardness; ken; knockdown; know-how; knowing; knowledge; light; lover; mate; mention; message; neighbor; notice; notification; other self; partisan; pickup; practical knowledge; presentation; private knowledge; privity; promotional material; proof; publication; publicity; ratio cognoscendi; release; report; repository; self-knowledge; sidelight; statement; supporter; sympathizer; technic; technics; technique; the dope; the goods; the know; the scoop; transmission; understanding; well-wisher; white book; white paper; word

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Breton: konesañs
 * Bulgarian: познанство
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: tuttavuus, tuttavasuhde
 * German:


 * Japanese: 知り合い
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Uzbek: tanishuv
 * Volapük: seväd


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: познайник
 * Catalan: conegut
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 熟人, 相識, 相识
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: accointance
 * German:, Bekannte


 * Hungarian: ismerős
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 知人, 知り合い
 * Kurdish:
 * Persian: آشنا
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, знакомая
 * Slovak: známy, známa, známosť
 * Spanish: conocido, conocida
 * Uzbek: tanish
 * Volapük: sevädan,  hisevädan,  jisevädan