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Word entry · 12 letters

acquaintance

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"Person you know"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /əˈkweɪntəns/Part of speech nounSorted aaacceinnqtuStarts with AEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1A2C3Q4U5A6I7N8T9A10N11C12E

Definitions

  1. 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

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