acquaintance 音标拼音: [əkw'entəns]
n . 认识,了解;相识的人,熟人
认识,了解;相识的人,熟人
acquaintance n 1 :
personal knowledge or information about someone or something [
synonym : {
acquaintance }, {
familiarity },
{
conversance }, {
conversancy }]
2 :
a relationship less intimate than friendship [
synonym :
{
acquaintance }, {
acquaintanceship }]
3 :
a person with whom you are acquainted ; "
I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances "; "
we are friends of the family " [
synonym : {
acquaintance }, {
friend }] [
ant :
{
alien }, {
stranger }, {
unknown }]
Acquaintance \
Ac *
quaint "
ance \,
n . [
OE .
aqueintance ,
OF .
acointance ,
fr .
acointier .
See {
Acquaint }.]
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 ;
as ,
I know the man ;
but have no acquaintance with him .
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Contract no friendship ,
or even acquaintance ,
with a guileful man . --
Sir W .
Jones .
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2 .
A person or persons with whom one is acquainted .
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Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson .
--
Macaulay .
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Note :
In this sense the collective term acquaintance was formerly both singular and plural ,
but it is now commonly singular ,
and has the regular plural acquaintances .
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{
To be of acquaintance },
to be intimate .
{
To take acquaintance of }
or {
with },
to make the acquaintance of . [
Obs .]
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Syn :
Familiarity ;
intimacy ;
fellowship ;
knowledge .
Usage : {
Acquaintance }, {
Familiarity }, {
Intimacy }.
These words mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse .
Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse ;
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 .
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Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him . --
Addison .
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We contract at last such a familiarity with them as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds . --
Atterbury .
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It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue . --
Rogers .
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111 Moby Thesaurus words for "
acquaintance ":
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
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