acquaintance

1. 1.

   personal knowledge or information about someone or something

   Synonymsfamiliarityconversanceconversancy

   Broaderinformation
2. 2.

   a relationship less intimate than friendship

   Synonymsacquaintanceship

   Broaderrelationship
3. 3.

   a person with whom you are acquainted

   “I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances”

   “we are friends of the family”

   Synonymsfriend

   Antonymsstranger

   Broaderperson

   Narrowerbunkmatecampmateconnectionend manhomeboymessmatepickupschoolmate

Other forms of acquaintance

plural

acquaintances·

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 acquaintance

What does acquaintance mean?

acquaintance means "personal knowledge or information about someone or something". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in acquaintance?

acquaintance has 3 syllables: acq-uain-tance. The stress falls on "uain". In IPA it is /əˈkweɪntəns/.

What is another word for acquaintance?

Close synonyms include familiarity, conversance, conversancy, acquaintanceship, friend. 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.

What is the opposite of acquaintance?

The recorded antonyms are stranger.

Is acquaintance a common word?

acquaintance is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.