"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
(5) personal, social, friendly
Kolokacji: 3
(6) nodding, female, male
Kolokacji: 3
1. long acquaintance = długi znajomy long acquaintance
  • Then it was on to Georgia for a reunion with a lady of long acquaintance.
  • One feels that it cannot be a very long acquaintance.
  • This was the first time in all their long acquaintance that she had ever invited him into her apartment.
  • After our long acquaintance, it cannot be said that you and I are strangers.
  • Gytha, whom I took because of her long acquaintance with tapes, did little better.
  • On the final morning we shook hands, for the first time in our long acquaintance.
  • In addition, it would give me the greatest pleasure to think that our long acquaintance will not end here.
  • Not at all: I believe he knows nothing of its real nature: mere long acquaintance, no more, for him.
  • Their competing words raised in the noisy confusion of long acquaintance.
  • People were staring, clearly beginning to doubt his sanity despite long acquaintance.
3. brief acquaintance = krótki znajomy brief acquaintance
(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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