Friend vs. Acquaintance
Difference Between Friend and Acquaintance
Friend➦
A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
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Acquaintance➦
knowledge or experience of something
the pupils had little acquaintance with the language
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Friend➦
A person whom one knows; an acquaintance.
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Acquaintance➦
a person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend
a wide circle of friends and acquaintances
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Friend➦
A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade.
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Acquaintance➦
Knowledge of a person acquired by a relationship less intimate than friendship.
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Friend➦
One who supports, sympathizes with, or patronizes a group, cause, or movement
friends of the clean air movement.
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Acquaintance➦
A relationship based on such knowledge
struck up an acquaintance with our new neighbor.
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Friend➦
Friend A member of the Society of Friends; a Quaker.
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Acquaintance➦
A person whom one knows.
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Friend➦
(Informal) To add (someone) as a friend on a social networking website.
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Acquaintance➦
Knowledge or information about something or someone
has a passing acquaintance with Chinese history.
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Friend➦
(Archaic) To befriend.
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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.
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Friend➦
A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college.
Trust is important between friends.
I used to find it hard to make friends when I was shy.
We became friends in the war and remain friends to this day.
We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.
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Acquaintance➦
(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
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Friend➦
An associate who provides assistance.
The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend.
The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.
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Acquaintance➦
(uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
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Friend➦
A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
a friend of a friend;
I added him as a friend on Facebook, but I hardly know
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Acquaintance➦
Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).
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Friend➦
A person who backs or supports something.
I’m not a friend of cheap wine.
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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.
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Friend➦
(informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
Fruit is your friend.
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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.
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Friend➦
Used as a form of address when warning someone.
You’d better watch it, friend.
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Acquaintance➦
personal knowledge or information about someone or something
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Friend➦
(object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
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Acquaintance➦
a relationship less intimate than friendship
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Friend➦
(climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
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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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Friend➦
(euphemistic) A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
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Friend➦
A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
Friends agree best at a distance.
Make friends of framet folk.
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Friend➦
To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
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Friend➦
(transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
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Friend➦
One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society and welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
A friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
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Friend➦
One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.
Friend, how camest thou in hither?
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Friend➦
One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.
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Friend➦
One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers.
America was first visited by Friends in 1656.
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Friend➦
A paramour of either sex.
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Friend➦
To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
Fortune friends the bold.
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Friend➦
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust;
he was my best friend at the university
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Friend➦
an associate who provides assistance;
he's a good ally in fight
they were friends of the workers
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Friend➦
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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Friend➦
a person who backs a politician or a team etc.;
all their supporters came out for the game
they are friends of the library
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Friend➦
a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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