"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
(9) professional, literary
Kolokacji: 2
  • The poetry of Paul Verlaine had a more profound influence on Claude Debussy's music than did Debussy's closest literary or musical acquaintances.
  • As a child he was not surrounded by books, nor did he have any literary acquaintances.
  • There, after many years, literary acquaintances, including Montherlant, Kazantzakis, and Malraux urged her to publish.
  • Through Forster he had acquired a wide circle of literary acquaintances, many of whom he recruited to make broadcasts on the radio.
  • She had a considerable number of literary and social acquaintances including Augusta Leigh and Lady Cork.
  • Alroy Kear: Biographer of Edward Driffield, literary acquaintance of Ashenden.
  • He had only one other literary acquaintance at that time--or friend of any sort, for that matter.
  • De Quincey then made literary acquaintances.
  • He encountered but did not consider himself part of the group of Lewis's literary acquaintances, the Inklings.
  • He made two or three journeys to Russia, formed numerous literary acquaintances there, and had a lasting friendship with Turgenev.
(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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