acquaintance

Etymology
From, from , , , from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Morphologically.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
 * 3)  Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
 * 4) Personal knowledge ( a specific subject etc.).
 * 1)  Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
 * 2) Personal knowledge ( a specific subject etc.).
 * 1) Personal knowledge ( a specific subject etc.).
 * 1) Personal knowledge ( a specific subject etc.).
 * 1) Personal knowledge ( a specific subject etc.).

Usage notes

 * Synonym notes: The words acquaintance,, and now mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse or interaction; as, "our acquaintance has been a brief one". We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, "the familiarity of old companions". Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, "the intimacy of established friendship".

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:acquaintance
 * See also Thesaurus:acquaintance

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: tanışlıq
 * Belarusian: знаёмства
 * Breton: konesañs
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: známost
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, tuttavasuhde
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ნაცნობობა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: rasa kenal
 * Ingrian: tuttahus
 * Irish: aitheantas, aithnid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: таныстық
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: nōtitia
 * Latvian: pazīšanās
 * Lithuanian: pažintis
 * Macedonian: запознавање
 * Malayalam:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: connoschimentu
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: позна́нство
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: známosť
 * Slovene: poznanstvo
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: ошноӣ, шиносоӣ
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: знайо́мство
 * Uzbek:
 * Volapük:


 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, , tanış-biliş
 * Bashkir: таныш
 * Belarusian: знаёмы, знаёмая
 * Bikol Central: kamidbid
 * Bulgarian:, позна́йничка, позна́йница, ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, známá
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: konato
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: coñecido
 * Georgian: ნაცნობი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γνώριμος
 * Hungarian:
 * Ibatan: am-ammo
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: tuttava, sebra, sebro
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: таныс
 * Khmer: ការស្គាល់គ្នា
 * Korean: 아는 사람,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ناسیار
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino: alishik
 * Latvian: paziņa
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian: познаник, познаничка
 * Malayalam:
 * Maranao: kagiginawa
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: accointance
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Old English: cūþ
 * Pangasinan: kabkabat
 * Persian:
 * Polabian: blaizĕk
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, cunoscută,
 * Romansch: enconuschent
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian: connoschènte
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̀знанӣк, по̀знаница
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kakilala
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tatar: таныш
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: คนรู้จัก, ผู้คุ้นเคย
 * Tibetan: ངོ་ཤེས་པ
 * Tok Pisin: poroman, poro
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: tanyş
 * Tuvan: таныш
 * Ukrainian: знайо́мий, знайо́ма
 * Uyghur: تونۇش
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:,  hisevädan,  jisevädan
 * Welsh: