acquaintance

acquaintance /ə'kweintəns/
  • danh từ
    • sự biết, sự hiểu biết
      • to have a good acquaintance with Vietnam: hiểu biết rất rõ về Việt Nam
      • to have an intimate acquaintance with a subject: hiểu biết tường tận một vấn đề
    • sự quen, sự quen biết
      • to make acquaintance with somebody; to make someone's acquaintance: làm quen với ai
    • ((thường) số nhiều) người quen
      • an old acquaintance: một người quen cũ
      • a man of many acquaintances: một người quen biết nhiều
    • bowing (nodding) aquaintance
      • người quen sơ sơ
    • to drop an aquaintance
      • bỏ rơi một người quen, lờ một người quen
    • to scrape acquaintance with somebody
      • cố làm quen bằng được với ai
    • speaking acquaintance
      • (xem) speaking
    • to strike up an aquaintance
      • (xem) strike

Xem thêm: familiarity, conversance, conversancy, acquaintanceship, friend



acquaintance

Từ điển Collocation

acquaintance noun

1 person you know

ADJ. casual I bumped into a casual acquaintance in town. | casual, new | close, old | business, mutual, personal, social

VERB + ACQUAINTANCE bump into, meet | greet (sb as) He was greeted as an old acquaintance.

PHRASES friends and acquaintances

2 knowledge of sb/sth

ADJ. nodding, passing, slight a man with whom I had a passing acquaintance | brief, short | close, intimate

VERB + ACQUAINTANCE make sb/sth's (= become acquainted with sb/sth) I first made his acquaintance in 1992. | strike up I first met Simon in 1998 and struck up an acquaintance with him. | renew

PREP. of sb's ~ He introduced me to a lady of his acquaintance. | ~ with her acquaintance with modern French philosophy

PHRASES have an acquaintance with They have little acquaintance with colloquial English. | on close/closer acquaintance, on first acquaintance On first acquaintance she seemed a little odd


Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • personal knowledge or information about someone or something; familiarity, conversance, conversancy
  • a relationship less intimate than friendship; acquaintanceship
  • a person with whom you are acquainted; friend

    I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances

    we are friends of the family


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

acquaintances
syn.: acquaintanceship conversance conversancy familiarity friend