"acquaintance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

acquaintance sustantivo

sustantivo + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 6
business acquaintance • family acquaintance • childhood acquaintance • chance acquaintance • school acquaintance • ...
acquaintance + verbo
Kolokacji: 14
acquaintance says • acquaintance describes • acquaintance tells • acquaintance makes • acquaintance includes • ...
verbo + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 11
renew one's acquaintance • make the acquaintance • tell acquaintances • claim acquaintance • visit acquaintances • ...
adjetivo + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 39
old acquaintance • new acquaintance • mutual acquaintance • casual acquaintance • close acquaintance • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(2) mutual, common, closest
Kolokacji: 3
(3) casual, mere, thorough
Kolokacji: 3
1. casual acquaintance = przelotna znajomość, powierzchowna znajomość (np. z osobą z pracy) casual acquaintance
  • No one admitted to being more than a casual acquaintance.
  • He seemed to recall some casual acquaintance saying something recently about market gardening.
  • It might have been just a lovely meeting of Americans in a foreign country, where even casual acquaintances could suddenly become best friends.
  • You may have known someone else for twenty years and yet he will never be more than a casual acquaintance.
  • From his tone he might have been talking of a treatment applied to some casual acquaintance.
  • Two years since we've seen each other, and we're talking as if there had never been more between us than casual acquaintance.
  • I didn't want casual acquaintances getting nervous because of my contact with him.
  • I had formed a casual acquaintance with him, and he sat down at our table.
  • So it's fair to say some of my more casual acquaintances were surprised by the move.
  • When I first made a casual acquaintance with him he was a bachelor.
2. mere acquaintance = zwykły znajomy mere acquaintance
(5) personal, social, friendly
Kolokacji: 3
(6) nodding, female, male
Kolokacji: 3
(8) slight, better, superficial
Kolokacji: 3
(9) professional, literary
Kolokacji: 2
(10) wide, limited, extensive
Kolokacji: 3
(11) distant, deep, vague
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 12
with acquaintances • to acquaintances • of one's acquaintance • from acquaintances • on acquaintance • ...

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