Acquaintance vs. Colleague — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Acquaintance and Colleague
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Acquaintance
Knowledge or experience of something
The pupils had little acquaintance with the language
Colleague
A fellow member of a profession, staff, or academic faculty; an associate.
Acquaintance
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend
A wide circle of friends and acquaintances
Colleague
A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate.
Acquaintance
Knowledge of a person acquired by a relationship less intimate than friendship.
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Colleague
To unite or associate with another or with others.
Young Fortinbras,/ Holding a weak supposal of our worth/...Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,/...hath not failed to pester us with message/ Importing the surrender of those lands/Lost by his father. - Hamlet (Act I, Scene 2)
Acquaintance
A relationship based on such knowledge
Struck up an acquaintance with our new neighbor.
Colleague
A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.
Acquaintance
A person whom one knows.
Colleague
To unite or associate with another or with others.
Acquaintance
Knowledge or information about something or someone
Has a passing acquaintance with Chinese history.
Colleague
An associate you work with
Acquaintance
(uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.
I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
Colleague
A person who is member of your class or profession;
The surgeon consulted his colleagues
He sent e-mail to his fellow hackers
Acquaintance
(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
Acquaintance
(uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
Acquaintance
Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).
Acquaintance
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 no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man.
Acquaintance
A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him.
We contract at last such a familiarity with them as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds.
It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue.
Acquaintance
Personal knowledge or information about someone or something
Acquaintance
A relationship less intimate than friendship
Acquaintance
A person with whom you are acquainted;
I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances
We are friends of the family
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