acquaintanceとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /əˈkweɪntəns/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ʌˈkweɪn.təns/

名詞

acquaintance (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 acquaintances)

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. [from 12th c.]

   I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.

   • 1799, William Jones (translator), Hito'pade'sa, in The Works, Volume 6, page 22:

     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.

2. (countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. [from 14th c.]
   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVI, in The History Of England From the Accession of James II:

     Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.

3. (uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with 複数形 concord). [from 15th c.]
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 230:

     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.

4. Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.). [from 16th c.]
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt

     The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.

使用する際の注意点

• Synonym notes: The words acquaintance, familiarity, and intimacy now mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse or interaction; as, "our acquaintance has been a brief one". We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, "the familiarity of old companions". Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, "the intimacy of established friendship".

同意語

• familiarity, fellowship, intimacy, knowledge
• See also Thesaurus:acquaintance

派生語

• nodding acquaintance
• renew acquaintances

関連する語

• acquaint