Acquaintance vs. Stranger — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Acquaintance and Stranger
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Acquaintance
Knowledge or experience of something
The pupils had little acquaintance with the language
Stranger
A stranger is a person who is unknown to another person or group. Because of this unknown status, a stranger may be perceived as a threat until their identity and character can be ascertained.
Acquaintance
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend
A wide circle of friends and acquaintances
Stranger
One who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
Acquaintance
Knowledge of a person acquired by a relationship less intimate than friendship.
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Stranger
A foreigner, newcomer, or outsider.
Acquaintance
A relationship based on such knowledge
Struck up an acquaintance with our new neighbor.
Stranger
One who is unaccustomed to or unacquainted with something specified; a novice
A stranger to our language.
No stranger to hardship.
Acquaintance
A person whom one knows.
Stranger
(Law) One that is neither privy nor party to a title, act, or contract.
Acquaintance
Knowledge or information about something or someone
Has a passing acquaintance with Chinese history.
Stranger
(Archaic) A visitor or guest.
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.
Stranger
A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
That gentleman is a stranger to me.
Children are taught not to talk to strangers.
Acquaintance
(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
Stranger
An outsider or foreigner.
Acquaintance
(uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
Stranger
One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
Acquaintance
Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).
Stranger
A newcomer.
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.
Stranger
(humorous) One who has not been seen for a long time.
Hello, stranger!
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.
Stranger
(obsolete) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
Acquaintance
Personal knowledge or information about someone or something
Stranger
(legal) One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
Actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title.
Acquaintance
A relationship less intimate than friendship
Stranger
(obsolete) A superstitious premonition of the coming of a visitor by a bit of stalk in a cup of tea, the guttering of a candle, etc.
Acquaintance
A person with whom you are acquainted;
I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances
We are friends of the family
Stranger
To estrange; to alienate.
Stranger
One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.
Stranger
One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.
I am a most poor woman and a stranger,Born out of your dominions.
Stranger
One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
To honor and receiveOur heavenly stranger.
Stranger
One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.
Stranger
One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.
Stranger
One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.
Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear,And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.
My child is yet a stranger in the world.
I was no stranger to the original.
Stranger
To estrange; to alienate.
Stranger
Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
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