Usually means: Person known but not close.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word acquaintance:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquaintance: Merriam-Webster
  2. acquaintance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acquaintance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acquaintance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acquaintance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acquaintance, acquaintance: Wordnik
  7. acquaintance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acquaintance: Wiktionary
  9. acquaintance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acquaintance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acquaintance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Acquaintance, acquaintance: Dictionary.com
  13. acquaintance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Acquaintance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Acquaintance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. acquaintance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. acquaintance: Rhymezone
  18. acquaintance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. acquaintance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. acquaintance: FreeDictionary.org
  21. acquaintance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. acquaintance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. acquaintance: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. acquaintance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. acquaintance: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquaintance: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquaintance: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. acquaintance: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Acquaintance, acquaintance: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See acquaintances as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.
noun:  (countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
noun:  (uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
noun:  Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).

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