acquaintance > define

noun

• Personal knowledge or information about someone or something.
  • synonyms: familiarity, conversance, conversancy
• A relationship less intimate than friendship.
  • synonyms: acquaintanceship
• A person with whom you are acquainted.
  • usage: "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"
  • synonyms: friend

• (n.) A state of being acquainted or of having intimate or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
• (n.) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.