acquaintance

Other users have misspelling acquaintance as:

1. aquaintance 16%
2. aquintance 9.6%
3. acquintance 8%
4. acquantaince 5.6%
5. aquaintence 3.2%
6. acquaintence 2.4%
7. Other 55.2%

Definitions of acquaintance

noun

1. a relationship less intimate than friendship
2. a person with whom you are acquainted
3. personal knowledge or information about someone or something

Examples of acquaintance

1. She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them.
2. You know, I always joked I had a million acquaintances and only a couple of close friends.
3. From that moment, he anchors his existence in the hopeless need to share an affective contiguity with this random female acquaintance by changing the time of every clock and watch he encounters to Paris time.

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