Acquaintance

Definition

acquaintance / ǝ'kweÇntǝns / n [U] ၁။ (က) [U] ~ with sth အကြၽမ္းဝင္မႈ။ I have little acquaintance with the Japanese language. (ခ) ~ (with sb) ခင္မင္ကြၽမ္းဝင္မႈ။ ဆံုစည္းမႈ။ Their acquaintance began to blossom. ❍ I was glad to renew my acquaintance with him. ၂။ [C] အသိ။ အသိ အကြၽမ္း။ Nobody of my acquaintance (ie that I know) was there. ❍ She's an old acquaintance. ❏ make sb's acquaintance/ make the acquaintance of sb [ IDM ] ဆံုစည္းသည္။ ေတြ႕မိသည္။ I made his acquaintance at a party. ❏ on further acquaintance [ IDM ] ရင္းႏီွးလာသည့္အခါ။ His manner seemed unpleasant at first, but he improved on further acquaintance.

Examples

1. He recognized Mr Hunter as an old business acquaintance from his years in banking.
2. [of someone’s acquaintance] : The only writer of my acquaintance
3. [a passing acquaintance] : I’m afraid I have only a passing acquaintance with Baroque music.