English Dictionary

acquaintance

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈkweɪntəns/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(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.

日本語の意味

知人：親しい友人ほどではなく、軽い付き合いや交際関係にある人。 / 知り合い：ある程度関わりのあるが、深い友情には至らない関係性。

His acquaintance with his new colleague eased the transition.

彼が新しい同僚と知り合っていたことが移行を容易にした。

意味（1）

(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.

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

意味（2）

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

Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.

意味（3）

(uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).

Their mother […] was busy in the mean time in keeping up her connections, as she termed a numerous acquaintance, lest her girls should want a proper introduction into the great world.

意味（4）

Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).

The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.

acquaintances （ plural ）