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acquaintance definition: person known but not a close friend. Check meanings, examples, usage tips, pronunciation, domains, and related words. Discover expressions like "passing acquaintance ", "pass acquaintance ", "make someone's acquaintance ". Acquaintance definition: A person whom one knows.Of this school, which had Lagrange for its professor of mathematics, we have an amusing account in the life of Gilbert Elliot, 1st earl of Minto, who with his brother Hugh, afterwards British minister at Berlin, there made the acquaintance of Mirabeau. Acquaintance, associate, companion, friend refer to a person with whom one is in contact . An acquaintance is someone recognized by sight or someone known, though not intimately: a casual acquaintance. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse or interaction; as, "our acquaintance has been a brief one". We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance .
