- a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
- the state of being acquainted or casually familiar with someone or something: As far as I know, no one of my acquaintance has traveled around the world.
- personal knowledge as a result of study, experience, etc.: a good acquaintance with French wines.
- the persons with whom one is acquainted.
- a person with whom one has been in contact but who is not a close friend
- knowledge of a person or thing, esp when slight
- to come into social contact with
- those persons collectively whom one knows
- the relation between a knower and the object of his knowledge, as contrasted with knowledge by description (esp in the phrase knowledge by acquaintance)
