Definitions
personal knowledge or information about someone or something
Word origin
From Middle English aqueyntaunce, from Anglo-Norman aquaintaunce, aqueintance, Old French acointance (“friendship, familiarity”), from Old French acointier (“to acquaint”). Compare French accointance.
Used in a sentence
“I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.”
“Contract no friendſhip, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man : he reſembles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it.”
“Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Person you know”12 letters
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