Definizione monolingua

acquaintance

acquaintance (plural acquaintances)

1. (uncountable) 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

   I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.

   • 1799, William Jones (translator), Hitopadesa, in The Works, Volume 6, page 22,

     Contract no friend?hip, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man : he re?embles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it.

2. (countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History Of England From the Accession of James II, Chapter XVI,

     Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.

Definizione dizionario acquaintance

	conoscenza
	person

	conoscente
	Persona con la quale si é parlato in molte occasioni, con la quale si condivide un interesse comune e con la quale ci si capisce bene.
	A person that someone has met repeatedly, and has a passing knowledge or understanding with or of.

	amico
	Persona con la quale si é parlato in molte occasioni, con la quale si condivide un interesse comune e con la quale ci si capisce bene.
	A person that someone has met repeatedly, and has a passing knowledge or understanding with or of.

accesso

accoglienza

accoglimento

amica

amicizia

cognizione

consapevolezza

coscienza

incontro

relazione

Altri significati:

(uncountable) 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

being acquainted

(an) acquaintance

(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.