"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
2. mere acquaintance = zwykły znajomy mere acquaintance
  • She had few friends there, indeed, mere acquaintances, who came to play bridge and rarely asked her back to their homes.
  • He managed to meet her gaze as if he were looking at a mere acquaintance.
  • Jen and I are more than mere acquaintances but not really friendly.
  • Maybe it would be safer if you and I were mere acquaintances.
  • Evidently Cranston had met the detective some time in the past, and the two were no more than mere acquaintances.
  • Many relationships end here, never developing to anything more than a mere acquaintance.
  • There was so much to say, so many remarks even mere acquaintances could make to each other on such a spot.
  • At first, the Schneiders and the protagonist's family are mere acquaintances.
  • Not at all: I believe he knows nothing of its real nature: mere long acquaintance, no more, for him.
  • We were not exactly intimate, something more than mere acquaintances perhaps, but not much.
(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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