Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - acquaintance
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Acquaintance
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n. 1 (usu. foll. by with) slight knowledge (of a person or thing). 2 the fact or process of being acquainted (our acquaintance lasted a year). 3 a person one knows slightly. Phrases and idioms make one's acquaintance first meet or introduce oneself to another person. make the acquaintance of come to know. Derivatives acquaintanceship n. Etymology: ME f. OF acointance (as ACQUAINT) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
1. знакомство upon acquaintance —- при более близком знакомстве to make smb.'s acquaintance, to make the acquaintance of smb., to make acquaintance with smb. —- познакомиться с кем-л. to cultivate the acquaintance of smb. —- ценить чью-л. дружбу, поддерживать знакомство с кем-л. to scrape acquaintance with smb. —- разг. навязывать знакомство кому-л., набиваться на знакомство с кем-л. to drop an acquaintance —- раззнакомиться 2. (with) знание, осведомленность I have some acquaintance with the language —- я немного знаю этот язык 3. знакомый; знакомая we are but slight acquaintances —- мы немного знакомы we have many acquaintances in our town —- в этом городе у нас много знакомых ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) знакомство nodding acquaintance - шапочное знакомство to make the acquaintance of smb. - познакомиться с кем-л. to cultivate the acquaintance (of) - поддерживать знакомство (c) upon further acquaintance - при более близком знакомстве to scrape acquaintance with smb. coll. - навязывать знакомство кому-л. 2) знакомый; знакомая 3) (with) осведомлённость Syn: see friend ...Англо-русский словарь
4.
(acquaintances) 1. An acquaintance is someone who you have met and know slightly, but not well. The proprietor was an old acquaintance of his... N-COUNT: oft with poss 2. If you have an acquaintance with someone, you have met them and you know them. ...a writer who becomes involved in a real murder mystery through his acquaintance with a police officer... N-VAR: oft poss N, N with n, on N 3. Your acquaintance with a subject is your knowledge or experience of it. (FORMAL) They had little or no acquaintance with philosophy or history... N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp, oft N with n 4. When you make someone’s acquaintance, you meet them for the first time and get to know them a little. (FORMAL) I first made his acquaintance in the early 1960s... PHRASE: V inflects ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n 1 someone you know, but who is not a close friend 2 make sb's ~ formal to meet someone for the first time (I'm pleased to make your acquaintance.) 3 of your ~ formal a person of your acquaintance is someone that you know (a certain lawyer of my acquaintance) 4 formal knowledge or experience of a particular subject have a passing/nodding ~ with (=have only slight knowledge or experience of something) (I must admit I have only a passing acquaintance with his books.) 5 on further/closer ~ formal when you start to know someone or something better ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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