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Definition of Acquaintance |
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Acquaintance
A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. Related Definitions: Acquaintance, Acquainted, As, Being, But, By, Friendship, Gained, Have, Having, Him, Intercourse, Intimacy, Intimate, Is, Know, Knowledge, Man, More, No, Of, One, Or, Person, Personal, Short, Slight, State, Superficial, Than, That, The, Whom, With |
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Acquaintance Quotations
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. George Washington Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. Rabindranath Tagore Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. Ambrose Bierce Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. Ambrose Bierce The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. George Eliot Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike. Marilyn vos Savant A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. Charles Babbage I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. Samuel Johnson Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. Lord Chesterfield |
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Acquaintance Translations
acquaintance in Afrikaans is kennis acquaintance in Danish is bekendt acquaintance in Dutch is kennis, relatie, bekende acquaintance in French is connaissance acquaintance in German is Bekanntschaft acquaintance in Italian is conoscenza, conoscente acquaintance in Norwegian is bekjentskap acquaintance in Portuguese is conhecimento acquaintance in Swedish is bekantskap |
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