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Acquaintance Pronunciation

Pronounce Acquaintance as AH K K UW AH IY N T AH N K EH.

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    Acquaintance phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'acquaintance'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of acquaintance: /ækkwuæɪntænkɛ/
    • Modern IPA representation of acquaintance: /æcqʊæɪntæncɛ/

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    List of meaning for acquaintance

    a person one knows slightly but not well

    acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy(noun)

    personal knowledge or information about someone or something

    acquaintance, acquaintanceship(noun)

    a relationship less intimate than friendship

    acquaintance, friend(noun)

    a person with whom you are acquainted

    "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"

    knowledge gained by personal experience

    Tiffany's acquaintance with cows is limited to a long-ago visit to a petting zoo when she was three

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    acquaintance in sentence

    1. The acquaintance at my job made me feel uncomfortable since she knew so many things about me.

    2. I could only presume that the unknown woman was an acquaintance of my father.

    3. After I lost my job, I contacted an acquaintance of mine who worked at a great company.

    4. Trying to describe my fellow, Karen, was difficult since she was more than an acquaintance but not dating.

    5. Ms. Smith was embarrassed that she didn’t know the name of the acquaintance who recognized her at the store.

    6. An acquaintance of the suspect called to report his new address to the detective in exchange for a cash reward.

    7. Most of the people I know at school fall under the category of acquaintance since I am quite shy.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term acquaintance

    The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

    – Arthur Conan Doyle

    These assaults were not date rapes. They were not acquaintance rapes. These assaults were violent rapes committed by a serial rapist -- a sexual deviant predator who was not going to stop until it was caught.

    – Police Cmdr. Greg McEachern

    I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

    – Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"

    There is a subtle difference between an acqaintance, a faie-weather friend, and a tru friend. An acquaintance is around you merely to enjoy your company, a fair-weather friend flatters when all is well, but a true friend has your best interests at heart and the strong guts to tell you what you must hear, whether you like it or not. If you're lucky and smart, you will recognize and appreciate your true friend, and will be able to keep safe distance from fair-weather friends and acquaintances.

    – Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate

    A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

    – George Washington

    Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

    – Franklin P. Jones

    To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

    – Selwyn Champion

    Trump Jr. was attending an NRA convention and having dinner when an acquaintance asked him to say hello to Alexander Torshin and made an introduction.

    – Alan Futerfas

    Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.

    – John Calvin

    To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

    – Selwyn Champion

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