acquainted

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈkweɪntɪd/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /əˈkwæɪntəd/

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• Hyphenation: ac‧quaint‧ed

Adjective

acquainted (comparative more acquainted, superlative most acquainted)

1. (often followed by with) Personally known; familiar.
   • 1748, [David Hume], “Essay II. Of the Origin of Ideas.”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 26:

     Suppoſe, therefore, a Perſon to have enjoy'd his Sight for thirty Years, and to have become perfectly well acquainted with Colours of all kinds, excepting one particular Shade of Blue, for Inſtance, which it never has been his Fortune to meet with.

   • 1927, Robert Frost, “Acquainted with the Night”, in The Poems of Robert Frost: […], New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, published 1946, →OCLC, stanza 1:

     I have been one acquainted with the night.
     I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
     I have outwalked the furthest city light.

Derived terms

• acquaintedness
• acquainted with
• e-quainted
• unacquainted
• well acquainted

 

Translations

familiar

• Armenian: ծանոթ (hy) (canotʻ)
• Azerbaijani: tanış (az)
• Danish: bekendt (da)
• Dutch: bekend (nl)
• Finnish: tutustunut (fi), perehtynyt (fi)
• German: bekannt (de)
• Greek: γνωστός (el) (gnostós), εξοικειωμένος (el) (exoikeioménos)
• Hungarian: (to know) ismer (hu), (familiar, skilled) jártas (hu)
• Irish: aithne a bheith agat, eolas a bheith agat ar (be acquainted with), aitheantach
• Italian: familiare (it)
• Malagasy: mahazatra(olona)
• Malayalam: പരിചയമായ (paricayamāya), പരിചയപ്പെട്ട (paricayappeṭṭa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjent (no)

• Polish: zaznajomiony m
• Portuguese: conhecido (pt)
• Russian: знако́мый (ru) m (znakómyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: eòlach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: упознат

  Roman: upoznat

• Spanish: conocido (es)
• Swedish: bekant (sv)

Verb

acquainted

1. simple past and past participle of acquaint