acquaintance
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Is acquaintance a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
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.Examples: "I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him."; "Contract no friendſhip, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man : he reſembles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it."uncountable
2. (countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.Examples: "Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson."countable
3. (uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).Examples: "Having therefore conſulted with my Wife, and ſome of my Acquaintance, I determined to go again to Sea."; "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."uncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary