Webster's English Dictionary

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acquaintance

ac.quaint.ance \*-'kwa-nt-*n(t)s\ \-.ship\ n 1a: personal knowledge : 
   FAMILIARITY  1b: the state of being acquainted  2a: archaic : the persons 
   with whom one is acquainted  2b: a person whom one knows but who is not a 
   particularly close friend  - ac.quaint.ance.ship n