Synonyms of acquaintance

acquaintance

noun

ə-ˈkwān-tᵊn(t)s 

as in familiarity

knowledge gained by personal experience

Tiffany's acquaintance with cows is limited to a long-ago visit to a petting zoo when she was three

Synonyms & Similar Words

• familiarity
• experience
• involvement
• association
• introduction
• intimacy
• cognizance
• understanding
• exposure
• initiation
• awareness
• learning
• comprehension
• education
• information
• conception
• schooling
• training
• instruction
• inkling
• enlightenment
• notion
• grounding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unfamiliarity
• ignorance
• inexperience
• greenness
• callowness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of acquaintance

The young lawman also thrives working the field thanks to his friendly nature and his acquaintance with key people in the community. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026

But Griffin’s focus on the Times story and other fallout has, acquaintances say, continued. — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026

An acquaintance of mine, who asked that her name not be used, told me her daughter’s bedroom window was struck by a bullet in July 2025. — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 26 Oct. 2026

That night, Pike, her boyfriend, 17-year-old Tadaryl Shipp, and an acquaintance, Shadolla Peterson, 18, lured Slemmer to an isolated area behind the agricultural campus steam plant. — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026