Acquaintance

Definitions: Acquaintance

Acquaintance

Noun

1. Personal knowledge or information about someone or something.

2. A relationship less intimate than friendship.

3. A person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family".

Date "acquaintance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Acquaintance \Ac*quaint"ance\, noun. [from Old English expression aqueintance, Old French acointance, from acointier. See Acquaint.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Dream Interpretation	To meet an acquaintance, and converse pleasantly with him, foretells that your business will run smoothly, and there will be but little discord in your domestic affairs. If you seem to be disputing, or engaged in loud talk, humiliations and embarrassments will whirl seethingly around you. If you feel ashamed of meeting an acquaintance, or meet him at an inopportune time, it denotes that you will be guilty of illicitly conducting yourself, and other parties will let the secret out. For a young woman to think that she has an extensive acquaintance, signifies that she will be the possessor of vast interests, and her love will be worthy the winning. If her circle of acquaintances is small, she will be unlucky in gaining social favors. After dreaming of acquaintances, you may see or hear from them. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Synonyms: Acquaintance

Synonyms: acquaintanceship (n), conversance (n), conversancy (n), familiarity (n), friend (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Friend	Acquaintance, neighbor, next-door neighbor, casual acquaintance, nodding acquaintance; wellwisher.
Friendship	Verb: be friendly; Adjective:, be friends; be acquainted with; Adjective: know; have the ear of; keep company with;(sociality); hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will; (benevolent); love; make much of; befriend; (aid); introduce to. set one's horses together; have the latchstring out; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly; Adjective: make friends; with; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor, gain the friendship of.
	Acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge of; introduction.
Information	Verb: tell; inform, inform of; acquaint, acquaint with; impart, impart to; make acquaintance with, apprise, advise, enlighten, awaken; transmit.
	Noun: information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge; publicity; data.
Knowledge	Noun: knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation; (judgment); intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics.
Sociality	Verb: be sociable; Adjective: know; be acquainted; Adjective: associate with, sort with, keep company with, walk hand in hand with; eat off the same trencher, club together, consort, bear one company, join; make acquaintance with; (friendship); make advances, fraternize, embrace.
	Social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company. social gathering, social reunion; assembly; (assemblage); barbecue, bee; corn-husking, corn-shucking; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee; infare.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I do not. He's only a casual acquaintance. (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen) I don't recall ever making your acquaintance. (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: John Sayles) General Feraud has made occasional attempts to kill me. That does not give him the right to claim my acquaintance. (The Duellists; writing credit: Joseph Conrad; Gerald Vaughan-Hughes) How do you do Mr. Barry? And now I'm afraid we must get on to the more regrettable stage of our brief acquaintance. Turn around, and keep your hands high above your head, please. (Barry Lyndon; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) Oh, uh, pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr. Hickock (Little Big Man; writing credit: Thomas Berger; Calder Willingham)
Movie/TV Titles	Old Acquaintance (1943) Fatty's Chance Acquaintance (1915) Their First Acquaintance (1914) Lord Barry's Low Acquaintance (1913) Acquaintance Rape (1979)
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Domain	Title
Books	A Moscow Acquaintance, the Snow-Storm and Other Stories (reference) A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial (reference) An Acquaintance With Darkness (Great Episodes) (reference) Date and Acquaintance Rape (Perspectives on Violence) (reference) I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Dangerous Acquaintance [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Urlaubs-bekanntschaft. In Österreich gibt es so lange keine Kinderlähmung,.... : [Vacation acquaintance. In Austria there has been no infantile paralysis for a long time,...].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Author	Quotation
Charles Caleb Colton	Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Confucius	Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible to be a superior man.
George Washington	A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
Henry David Thoreau	I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
Oscar Wilde	An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Rowe	Great souls, by nature half divine, soar to the stars, and hold a near acquaintance with the gods.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Since then those, who like one another so well as to join into society, cannot but be supposed to have some acquaintance and friendship together, and some trust one in another; they could not but have greater apprehensions of others, than of one another: and therefore their first care and thought cannot but be supposed to be, how to secure themselves against foreign force. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Their subjects in general were such as belong to an opening acquaintance.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Pearl saw, and gazed intently, but never sought to make acquaintance.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	At the point of this story at which we now are, a closer acquaintance with Fauchelevent becomes necessary.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I soon fell into some acquaintance, and was very hospitably received.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Perhaps I have owed to this employment and to hunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Armenia	It may also take a bribe and/or the support of a high-ranking acquaintance for a public servant to be hired by a government office, depending on the position's "money generating" potential. (references)
Travel	Denmark	Even more rarely is it to be invited for dinner at the home of a business acquaintance. (references)
	Switzerland	Allowing ample lead time in setting up business appointments is also considered polite; one should not expect to "drop in" without an appointment on a business acquaintance. (references)
Women	Sweden	In three-quarters of the assaults, the perpetrator was an acquaintance of the victim. (references)
	Paraguay	CODEHUPY reports, according to a government survey, that from January to August 1 woman was killed every 12 days by a family member or other acquaintance. (references)
	Argentina	Marital rape and acquaintance rape are offenses under the law, if force is involved, but the need for proof, either in the form of clear physical injury or the testimony of a witness, often presents a problem. (references)
Worker Rights	Ukraine	They are solicited with promises of work as waitresses, dancers, or housemaids, or are invited by marriage agencies allegedly to make the acquaintance of a potential bridegroom. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. Joel Frad Bink
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ulysses S. Grant	1869-1877	I did not ask for place or position, and was entirely without influence or the acquaintance of persons of influence, but was resolved to perform my part in a struggle threatening the very existence of the nation.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Acquaintance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.68% of the time. "Acquaintance" is used about 616 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.68%	614	10,509
Unclassified Items	0.16%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	0.16%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	616	N/A

Expressions using "acquaintance": a nodding acquaintance ♦ A speaking acquaintance ♦ a wide acquaintance ♦ acquaintance with smth. ♦ bowing acquaintance ♦ casual acquaintance ♦ have a wide acquaintance with ♦ improve upon acquaintance ♦ make acquaintance ♦ make acquaintance with ♦ make the acquaintance of ♦ making acquaintance ♦ nodding acquaintance ♦ on better acquaintance ♦ pick acquaintance with ♦ presume upon a short acquaintance ♦ strike up an acquaintance with ♦ To be of acquaintance ♦ To scrape acquaintance ♦ To take acquaintance of. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "acquaintance": non-acquaintance, re-acquaintance, Self-acquaintance.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "acquaintance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		kennis (knowledge). (various references)

Albanian		njohur, njohje (acknowledgement, cognition, conversance, introduction, knowledge, presentation, recognition), i njohuri. (various references)

Arabic		‏معلومات (datum, dope, information, input, notion, poop, reference), ‏معرفة شخصية, ‏معرفة (awareness, cognition, cognizance, conversance, education, erudition, familiarity, information, knowing, knowledge, learning, lore, scholarship), ‏إطلاع (information, initiation, reading). (various references)

Bulgarian		опознаване (familiarization, knowledge), знания (acquirements, attainments, familiarity, information, knowledge, lore), запознанство (acquaintanceship), познати, познат (contact, familiar, known, well known), познайници, познайник, познанство (acquaintanceship, company, connection), познания (experience, experiences, knowledge, learning, science). (various references)

Chinese		熟知 , 熟人 (friend), 相識 , 相识. (various references)

Czech		znalost (command, information, know how, knowledge), známost s, známý (famous, friend, known, well known). (various references)

Danish		bekendt. (various references)

Dutch		relatie (coupling, relation, relationship, route, telegraph relation, telex relation), kennis (knowledge), bekende. (various references)

Esperanto		konato, konateco (conversance, familiarity). (various references)

Faeroese		kenningur. (various references)

Farsi		سابقه (Antecedent, Background, History, Intellect, Precedence, Prehistory, Record, Scape, Shaft), اگاهی (Advice, Cognizance, Dope, Idea, Immediacy, Inkling, Intelligence, Knowledge, Perception), اشنایان , اشناءی , اشنا (Familiar). (various references)

Finnish		tuttavuus (intimacy), tuttava. (various references)

Flemish		kennis. (various references)

French		connaissance. (various references)

French Canadian		connaissance. (various references)

Frisian		kunde. (various references)

German		Bekanntschaft (acquaintanceship, aquaintance, conversance, familiarity, introduction, knowledge, pick up). (various references)

Greek		γνωριμία (contact). (various references)

Haitian Creole		konesans. (various references)

Hawaiian		njohur. (various references)

Hebrew		מכיר (friend), מכר (friend, kith), �"כרות (acquaintanceship), �"כר�" אישית. (various references)

Hungarian		ismeretség (acquaintanceship), tudás (attainments, knowledge, learning, science, smattering), ismerős (familiar). (various references)

Icelandic		kunningi. (various references)

Indonesian		kenalan. (various references)

Irish		aithne. (various references)

Italian		conoscenza (acquaintanceship, aquaintance, cognition, consciousness, contact, Ken, knowledge, privity), conoscente (friend). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		知己 (appreciative friend), �"存知 (knowing), 御存じ (knowing), 御存知 (knowing), 交わり (intersection, relations, sexual intercourse), 交際 (association, company, friendship, society), �"�縁 (affinity, reason, relation), 相識 , 精通 (being expert, being versed in, conversant, having knowledge), 知合い , �"存じ (knowing), 知り合い , 辱知 , 知人 (friend), �"なじみ (familiar face, friend), �"馴�" (familiar face, friend), �"馴�"み (familiar face, friend), �"見知り , 見知り (recognition), 近付き , 近づき , 面識 , 知る辺 (friend). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"ぞ�"じ (knowing), ちじ�" (dunce, fool, friend, idiot), ちかづき, みしり (recognition), じょくち, ゆえ�" (affinity, cause, grounds, lamp soot, reason, relation, way of doing), ちき (appreciative friend, childishness, naivete), �"うさい (association, brilliance, clever speech, company, friendship, High Court, iris, judicial decision, public bond or securities, public debt, slag, society, splendour), そうしき (direction over all, funeral, silk reeling machine, supreme command), かおみしり, かおなじみ (familiar face, friend), せいつう (being expert, being versed in, conversant, having knowledge), まじわり (intersection, relations, sexual intercourse), しるべ (friend), しりあい, め�"しき. (various references)

Korean		지인. (various references)

Manx		enney (acquaintanceship, awareness, cognition, consciousness, identity, knowledge, recognition), enn (knowledge, recognition), ainjyssagh (acquainted, familiar, intimate), ainjys (familiarity, intimacy). (various references)

Norwegian		kjenning, bekjent. (various references)

Papiamen		konosementu (knowledge), konosemento (knowledge). (various references)

Pig Latin		acquaintanceay

Polish		znajomy. (various references)

Portuguese		conhecimento (attainment, awareness, background, bill of lading, cognition, cognizance, command, conscious, consciousness, conversance, familiarization, friend, idea, information, insight, instructional, intelligence department, know, knowing, knowledge, learning, light, lore, manifest, perception, privity, scholarship, science). (various references)

Romanian		informaţii (information), familiarizare, cunoscut (acquainted, familiar, friend, known, renowned, well known), cunoştinţe (acquirement, information, knowledge, learning, lore, science, the furniture of one's mind), cunoştinţã (attainment, cognizance, consciousness, notice), cunoaştere (cognition, knowing, knowledge, mastery). (various references)

Russian		знакомство (acquaintances, acquaintanceship, familiarity, knowledge). (various references)

Scottish		aithne (acquaintance : is aithne dhomh, I, knowledge), fios (information, knowledge, message, notice), eòlas (acquaintanceship, knowledge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		poznanstvo, poznanik. (various references)

Spanish		conocimiento (acquaintanceship, awareness, bill of lading, cognizance, consciousness, conversance, conviction, enquiry, expedition, fame, familiarity, glory, knowing, knowledge, light, privity, shipping bill), conocido (acquaint, arrant, excerpt, famed, familiar, famous, Ken, known, learned, met, noted, recognized, well-known). (various references)

Swedish		bekantskap (acquaintanceship, knowledge). (various references)

Turkish		axína, tanıma (acknowledgement, exequatur, familiarization, identification, recognition, recognizance, spotting), tanıdık (contact, contact man, familiar, friend, friend at court), tanışma, bilgi (cognizance, conveyance, data, dope, Gen, gleanings, Griff, griffin, info, information, inside dope, instructions, intelligence, know how, knowledge, learning, line, lore, notice, report, savvy, word), bílgí (knowledge), bíldík (well-known). (various references)

Turkmen		tanyюlyk, tanyю-biliю, beletзilik. (various references)

Ukranian		знайомство (acquaintanceship, introduction), знайома, знайомий (acquainted, friend). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự hiểu biết sự quen, sự biết. (various references)

Welsh		adnabyddiaeth (knowledge), cydnabyddiaeth (acknowledgment, recognition), cydnabod (acknowledge, avow). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	lu-su-a, zu-a. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cognitio, cognitione, cognitionem, notitia, notitiae. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 23, Verse 49
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Eisthkeisan de panteV oi gnwstoi autou makroqen kai gunaikeV ai sunakolouqhsasai autw apo thV galilaiaV orwsai tauta
Latin	405	Vulgate	Stabant autem omnes noti eius a longe et mulieres quae secutae erant eum a Galilaea haec videntes
Old English	990	West Saxon	þa stodon ealle hys cuþan feorran: and þa wif þe him fyligdon fram galilea þas þing geseonde:
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	But alle his knowun stoden afer, and wymmen that sueden hym fro Galile, seynge these thingis.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And all his acquayntaunce and the wemen that folowed him from Galile stode a farre of beholdynge these thinges.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off beholding these things.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And all his friends and the women who came with him from Galilee, were waiting at a distance, watching these things.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Luke Chapter 23, Verse 49
Bulgarian	А всичките негови познайници и жените, които бяха дошли подир Него от �"алилея, стояха надалеч и гледаха това.
Cebuano	Ug ang iyang tanang mga kaila ug ang mga babaye nga mikuyog kaniya sukad pa sa Galilea, nanagtindog nga nagpaantaw ug nakakita niining mga butanga.
Chinese	還有一切與耶穌熟識的人、 �'� 從 � 利利跟著他來的婦女們、都 � � 的站著、看這些事。
Croatian	Stajahu podalje i gledahu to svi znanci njegovi i žene koje su za njim išle iz Galileje.
Danish	Men alle hans Kyndinge stode langt borte, ligeså de Kvinder, som fulgte med ham fra Galilæa, og så dette.
Dutch	En al Zijn bekenden stonden van verre, ook de vrouwen, die Hem te zamen gevolgd waren van Galilea, en zagen dit aan.
Finnish	Mutta kaikki hänen tuttavansa seisoivat taampana, myöskin naiset, jotka olivat seuranneet häntä Galileasta, ja katselivat tätä.
French	Tous ceux de la connaissance de Jésus, et les femmes qui l`avaient accompagné depuis la Galilée, se tenaient dans l`éloignement et regardaient ce qui se passait.
German	Es standen aber alle seine Bekannten von ferne und die Weiber, die ihm aus Galiläa waren nachgefolgt, und sahen das alles.
Haitian Creole	Tout zanmi Jezi yo te rete yon ti jan lwen ansanm ak fanm ki t'ap mache avè l' yo depi nan peyi Galile. Yo tout t'ap gade sak t'ap pase.
Hungarian	Az õ ismerõsei pedig mind, és az asszonyok, a kik Galileából követék õt, távol állának, nézvén ezeket.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Dan semua kenalan Yesus, termasuk wanita-wanita yang mengikuti Dia dari Galilea, berdiri dari jauh dan melihat semuanya itu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka segala kenal-kenalannya dan juga perempuan-perempuan yang sudah mengikut Yesus dari Galilea, berdiri dari jauh memandang segala perkara ini.
Italian	Tutti i suoi conoscenti assistevano da lontano e così le donne che lo avevano seguito fin dalla Galilea, osservando questi avvenimenti.
Korean	예 수 의 아 �" 자 �"� 과 및 갈 릴 리 로 부 터 �"� 라 온 여 자 �"� 도 다 멀 리 서 서 이 일 을 보 니 라
Latvian	Bet visi Viòa pazîstamie un sievietes, kas ar Viòu bija nâkuðas no Galilejas, to redzçdamas, stâvçja nostâk.
Maori	A ko te hunga katoa i mohio ki a ia, ratou ko nga wahine i aru mai i a ia i Kariri, i tu mai i tawhiti, matakitaki ai ki enei mea.
Modern Greek	Ισταντο δε μακροθεν παντες οι γνωστοι αυτου, και αι γυναικες αιτινες συνηκολουθησαν αυτον απο της �"αλιλαιας, και εβλεπον ταυτα.
Norwegian	Men alle hans kjenninger og de kvinner som hadde fulgt ham fra Galilea, stod langt borte og så dette.
Portuguese	Entretanto, todos os conhecidos de Jesus, e as mulheres que o haviam seguido desde a Galiléia, estavam de longe vendo estas coisas.
Rumanian	Toyi cunoscuyii lui Isus wi femeile, cari -L knsoyiserq din Galilea, stqteau departe, wi se uitau la cele ce se petreceau.
Russian	чУЕ ЦЕ, ЪОБЧЫЙЕ еЗП, Й ЦЕОЭЙОЩ, УМЕ�"ПЧБЧЫЙЕ ЪБ оЙН ЙЪ зБМЙМЕЙ, УФПСМЙ Ч�"БМЙ Й УНПФТЕМЙ ОБ ЬФП.
Shuar	Tura Jesusa amikrisha tura nuwa Kariréanmaya Niin nemariarmia nusha íkian wajasar ii wajarmiayi.
Spanish	Pero todos sus conocidos, y las mujeres que le habían seguido desde Galilea, se quedaron lejos, mirando estas cosas.
Swahili	Marafiki zake wote pamoja na wale wanawake walioandamana naye kutoka Galilaya, walisimama kwa mbali kutazama tukio hilo.
Swedish	Men alla hans vänner stodo på avstånd och sågo detta, bland dem också några kvinnor, de som hade följt med honom från Galileen.
Thai	คนทั้งปวงที่รู้จักพระองค์และพวกผู้หญิงซึ่งไ�"้ตามพระองค์มาจากกาลิลี ก็ยืนอยู่แต่ไกล มอง�"ูเหตุการ�"์เหล่านี้
Ukrainian	Усі ж знайомі Його й ті жінки, що прийшли були з Ним із �"алілеї, здалека стояли й дивились на це...
Uma	Ane hawe'ea pome'inca-na Yesus hante tobine-tobine to mpotuku' -i ngkai Galilea, mokore molaa-ra mpohilo hawe'ea to jadi' toe.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "acquaintance": acquaintances, acquaintanceship, acquaintanceships. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Acquaintance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accqueintance, accquiantance, acquaintancc, acquaintancre, acquaintence, acquantance, acquiantance, acquiantence. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "acquaintance" (pronounced ukwā"ntuns)
5	-n t u n s	repentance, sentence.
4	-t u n s	acceptance, admittance, assistance, capacitance, coexistence, competence, consistence, distance, existence, importance, impotence, inadvertence, incompetence, inductance, inheritance, insistence, instance, omnipotence, persistence, pittance, reluctance, remittance, resistance, subsistence, substance.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, accordance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, imprudence, incidence, incoherence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, innocence, insignificance, insolence, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, remembrance, reminiscence, resemblance, residence, resilience, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-e-i-n-n-q-t-u"
	-4 letters: acquaint, acutance, cuneatic, uncinate.
	-5 letters: acequia, ancient, antique, aquatic, cacique, cantina, quantic, quinate, quinnat, quintan, tunicae.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-c-e-i-n-n-q-t-u"
	+1 letter: acquaintances.
	+4 letters: acquaintanceship.
	+5 letters: acquaintanceships.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 71 75 61 69 6E 74 61 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.- -.-. --.- ..- .- .. -. - .- -. -.-. .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100011 01110001 01110101 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#113 &#117 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#116 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0071 0075 0061 0069 006E 0074 0061 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
acquaintance	51
acquaintance in marriage world	4
acquaintance with darkness	4
acquaintance day last our	2
acquaintance agency marriage	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Acquaintance

Definitions: Acquaintance

Acquaintance

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Acquaintance

Synonyms: Acquaintance

Synonyms within Context: Acquaintance

Friend

Friendship

Information

Knowledge

Sociality

Crosswords: Acquaintance

Modern Usage: Acquaintance

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Acquaintance

Books

Music

Photo Album: Acquaintance

Familiar Quotations: Acquaintance

Charles Caleb Colton

Confucius

George Washington

Henry David Thoreau

Oscar Wilde

Rowe

Historic Usage: Acquaintance

John Locke

Use in Literature: Acquaintance

Emma

Austen, Jane

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Acquaintance

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Acquaintance

Ulysses S. Grant

Usage Frequency: Acquaintance

Expressions: Acquaintance

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acquaintance

acquaintance

acquaintance in marriage world

acquaintance with darkness

acquaintance day last our

acquaintance agency marriage

Modern Translations: Acquaintance

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