acquaint

1. 1.

   cause to come to know personally

   “permit me to acquaint you with my son”

   “introduce the new neighbors to the community”

   Synonymsintroducepresent

   Broaderinform

   Narrowerreintroducepresentintroduce
2. 2.

   make familiar or conversant with

   “you should acquaint yourself with your new computer”

   “We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings”

   Synonymsfamiliarizefamiliarise

   Broaderinform

   Narrowerorientverseget into
3. 3.

   inform

   “Please acquaint your colleagues of your plans to move”

   Broaderinform

Other forms of acquaint

past tense

acquainted·

present participle

acquainting·

third person

acquaints·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acquaint

What does acquaint mean?

acquaint means "cause to come to know personally". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in acquaint?

acquaint has 2 syllables: acq-uaint. The stress falls on "uaint". In IPA it is /əˈkweɪnt/.

What is another word for acquaint?

Close synonyms include introduce, present, familiarize, familiarise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acquaint a common word?

acquaint is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with acquaint?

1 word rhymes with acquaint. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.