Acquaintance | Mean of acquaintance in English Dictionary

/əˈkweɪntn̩s/

• Noun
• someone who is known but who is not a close friend
1. Is he an acquaintance of yours? [=have you met him?]
2. She ran into an old acquaintance at the grocery store.
3. My wife and I met through a mutual acquaintance. [=a friend introduced us to each other]
4. a casual acquaintance
5. friends and acquaintances
• the state of knowing someone in a personal or social way
1. our family's close acquaintance with our neighbors
2. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. [=(less formally) it's nice to meet you]
3. She made the acquaintance of [=she met] a man from the city.
4. She struck up an acquaintance with a man from the city.
5. a doctor of my acquaintance [=a doctor that I know]
6. He seemed cold on/at first acquaintance [=when I first met him], but later I realized that he was just shy.
7. He seemed cold at first, but on closer/further acquaintance I realized that he was just shy.
• knowledge about something
1. She has only a nodding/slight/superficial acquaintance with the facts of the case. [=she knows only a little about the facts of the case]
2. He has more than a passing acquaintance with wine. [=he knows a lot about wine]
3. While he has some acquaintance with the subject, he is not an expert.