"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
(8) slight, better, superficial
Kolokacji: 3
  • Efraim and Lorcas, having achieved at least a superficial acquaintance with the maze, rose to their feet and considered the wall of the Grand Parlor.
  • I went from a very superficial acquaintance to an absolute immersion in black literature.
  • He appears to have had a sympathetic, if superficial, acquaintance with minor political thinkers of French absolutism.
  • For instance, to a parrot-like memory and the power of acquiring a superficial acquaintance with much miscellaneous information and remembering the same for, say, six months.
  • Kemp frequently provides details of superficial social acquaintance between scientists and artists and refers to their reading habits.
  • In Ukiah she formed nothing more than superficial acquaintances.
  • So it was a very brief and superficial acquaintance.
  • He's known to be quiet and refined, and he seemed, from our superficial acquaintance with him, to be nice.
  • Although Daffyd had only a superficial acquaintance with the mechanics of the Performing Arts, there were several glaring contradictions in this report.
  • And yet nothing about the show leads to anything more than a superficial acquaintance with the cultures under observation.
(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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