acquaintance

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.”

2. isim A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.

   “Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.”

3. isim Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).

   “Having therefore conſulted with my Wife, and ſome of my Acquaintance, I determined to go again to Sea.”

4. isim Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).

   “The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.”