acquaintance

IPA: ʌkwˈeɪntʌns

(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.
(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
(uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).

Examples of "acquaintance" in Sentences

He was an acquaintance of the caretaker.
Pleased to make your acquaintance Ma'am.
He became the acquaintance of the renowned writer.
The mutual acquaintance is quite the gentleman and has a beautiful family.
You seem to think being overly effusive in (mistakenly) praising an acquaintance is the prime issue.
In fact, I think the relation of subject and object which I call acquaintance is simply the converse of the relation of object and subject which constitutes presentation.
If we wished to maintain the view that there is no acquaintance with Self, we might argue as follows: We are acquainted with _acquaintance_, and we know that it is a relation.
Then I said that you and I were shocked to find Gladys being charged with witchcraft because we had some acquaintance with her—and then I had to rephrase that because the coroner had never heard of the word acquaintance and wanted to know what it meant.
An embarrassing question in any case, and doubly so under the circumstances, because my acquaintance is a very learned man, one of the three or four really first-class minds that Europe produced in his generation; and naturally I, as one of the unlearned, was inclined to regard his lightest word with reverence amounting to awe.