Acquaintance

n.	1.	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. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. - Sir W. Jones.
	2.	A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. - Macaulay. To be of acquaintance to be intimate. To take acquaintance of to make the acquaintance of. Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him. - Addison. We contract at last such a familiarity with them as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds. - Atterbury. It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue. - Rogers.

Noun	1.	acquaintance - personal knowledge or information about someone or something Synonyms: conversance, conversancy, familiarity
	2.	acquaintance - a relationship less intimate than friendship Synonyms: acquaintanceship
	3.	acquaintance - a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family" Synonyms: friend

To see an acquaintance in your dream, signifies positive affairs in business and harmony in your home life. It also foretells that you will see or hear from them shortly after this dream. To dream that you are in a dispute with an acquaintance, denotes that you will soon find yourself in a humiliating situation.account, acquaintedness, advocate, alter ego, amigo, announcement, appreciation, apprehension, associate, awareness, backer, best friend, blue book, bosom friend, briefing, brother, bulletin, casual acquaintance, close acquaintance, close friend, communication, communique, companion, comrade, confidant, confidante, consciousness, corpus, crony, data, datum, directory, dispatch, enlightenment, evidence, experience, expertise, facts, factual base, factual information, familiar, familiarization, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, friend, gen, general information, grasp, guidebook, handout, hard information, incidental information, info, information, inseparable friend, instruction, intelligence, intimate, introduction, inwardness, ken, knockdown, know-how, knowing, light, lover, mate, mention, message, neighbor, notice, notification, other self, partisan, pickup, practical knowledge, presentation, private knowledge, privity, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, ratio cognoscendi, release, report, repository, self-knowledge, sidelight, statement, supporter, sympathizer, technic, technics, technique, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, transmission, understanding, well-wisher, white book, white paper, word

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