Acquaintanceship

Definition: Acquaintanceship

Acquaintanceship

Noun

1. A relationship less intimate than friendship.

Date "acquaintanceship" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Synonym: Acquaintanceship

Synonym: acquaintance (n). (additional references)

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	And they made elaborate acquaintanceship gestures.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Acquaintanceship" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Acquaintanceship" is used about 27 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)	100%	27	66,962

Language		Translations for "acquaintanceship"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		кръг от познати, запознанство (acquaintance), познанство (acquaintance, company, connection). (various references)

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

Hebrew		�"כרות (acquaintance), �"כר�" (consciousness, recognition). (various references)

Hungarian		kapcsolatok, kapcsolat (affair, affiliation, articulation, association, attach, conjunction, connection, connexion, dealings, hookup, intercommunication, liaison, link, link up, linkage, linking, nexus, passages, platonics, rapport, relation, relationship), ismeretségi kör, ismeretség (acquaintance), ismerősök (kith). (various references)

Indonesian		perkenalan (introduction). (various references)

Italian		conoscenza (acquaintance, aquaintance, cognition, consciousness, contact, Ken, knowledge, privity). (various references)

Manx		enney (acquaintance, awareness, cognition, consciousness, identity, knowledge, recognition). (various references)

Pig Latin		acquaintanceshipay

Portuguese		amizade (affection, amicability, amity, attachment, develop a friendship, fellowship, friendship), relações pessoais, convivência. (various references)

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

Scottish		eòlas (acquaintance, knowledge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		poznansvo. (various references)

Spanish		relaciones (acquaintance, intercourse, liaison, relations, relationship, truck), conocimiento (acquaintance, awareness, bill of lading, cognizance, consciousness, conversance, conviction, enquiry, expedition, fame, familiarity, glory, knowing, knowledge, light, privity, shipping bill). (various references)

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

Turkish		tanıdıklar, tanışıklık. (various references)

Ukranian		знайомство (acquaintance, introduction). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự quen biết. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "acquaintanceship": acquaintanceships. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "acquaintanceship" (pronounced ukwā"ntunsshup)
3	-sh u p	archbishop, bishop, worship.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-e-h-i-i-n-n-p-q-s-t-u"
	-3 letters: acquaintances.
	-4 letters: acquaintance, ipecacuanhas.
	-5 letters: cachinnates, captaincies, chinquapins, ipecacuanha, technicians.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-c-e-h-i-i-n-n-p-q-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: acquaintanceships.
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