acquaintance

The definition of an acquaintance is someone you know casually but don't know as well as you know a friend.

(noun)

An example of an acquaintance is anyone you went to school with but don't keep in touch with on a regular basis.

See acquaintance in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

knowledge (of something) gotten from personal experience or study of it: an intimate acquaintance with the plays of Jonson
the state or relation of being acquainted (with someone)
a person or persons whom one knows, but not intimately

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See acquaintance in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. Knowledge of a person acquired by a relationship less intimate than friendship.
b. A relationship based on such knowledge: struck up an acquaintance with our new neighbor.
A person whom one knows.
Knowledge or information about something or someone: has a passing acquaintance with Chinese history.

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