Word Meanings - ACQUAINTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An acquaintance. Swift.

Related words: (words related to ACQUAINTANT)

• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• SWIFTER
  A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
• SWIFTLY
  In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.
• SWIFTFOOT
  Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag.
• SWIFT
  to swapan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swifan to move quickly, to 1. Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
• ACQUAINTANCESHIP
  A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• UNACQUAINTANCE
  The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance. He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity. Sir W. Hamilton.
• NONACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.
• DISACQUAINTANCE
  Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance. South.