"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
3. brief acquaintance = krótki znajomy brief acquaintance
  • A long-time acquaintance of Bird ribbed the Pacers' coach yesterday after Indiana practice.
  • 'The trouble with T S,' says one long-time acquaintance, 'is that he cannot bring himself to confide in anybody.'
  • She is a long-time acquaintance with Ethan because of his standing friendship with her brother Matt.
  • "Jamie is completely honest, but he can play rough," a long-time acquaintance said.
  • Hadley, a long-time acquaintance of Stefansson's, was entered in the ship's books as carpenter.
  • A long-time acquaintance of Chise, as her family has had close relations with the Umenomori family for generations.
  • They talked from the very beginning as if they were long-time acquaintances.
  • At least four long-time acquaintances testified under oath that the accident had dramatically changed Muybridge's personality, from genial and pleasant to unstable and erratic.
  • One went to a long-time acquaintance from the lodging houses along Dorset Street.
  • They were not old friends, the lord of this house and Tellin Windglimmer, but they were long-time acquaintances.
(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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