HOW TO PRONOUNCE
acquaintance
/ʌˈkweɪn.təns/
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uh-KWAYN-tuhns: qu sounds like kw.
The strongest syllable rhymes with “rain.” Let the final n lead into s without adding another vowel after it.
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“I met an old acquaintance outside the library.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does acquaintance mean?
noun
- 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.
- A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
- Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
More meanings (1)
noun
- Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).
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IPA pronunciation
/ʌˈkweɪn.təns/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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Another defect to be supplied by a senate lies in a want of due acquaintance with the objects and principles of legislation.
So Pearl, who had enough of shadow in her own little life, chose to break off all acquaintance with this repining brook.
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Mrs. Andrews’ only acquaintance with the word “genius” was derived from the colloquial fashion of calling any eccentric individual “a queer genius.”
Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden wooing, nor her sudden consenting.
And Jurgis would make the acquaintance of others of these unemployed men and find that they had all had the same experience.