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ACQUAINTED definition: 1. knowing or being familiar with a person: 2. to know or be familiar with something, because you…. Learn more.
The meaning of ACQUAINTED is having personal knowledge of something : having seen or experienced something —+ with. How to use acquainted in a sentence.
Acquainted definition: having personal knowledge as a result of study, experience, etc.; informed (usually followed by with). See examples of ACQUAINTED used in a sentence.
1. : to cause to know personally. was acquainted with the mayor. 2. : to make familiar : to cause to know firsthand. acquainting the new employees with their responsibilities. She took a few days to acquaint herself with the facts of the case. Synonyms. accustom. familiarize. initiate. introduce. orientate. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.
If you get or become acquainted with someone that you do not know, you talk to each other or do something together so that you get to know each other. You can also say that two people get or become acquainted.
acquainted with something (formal) familiar with something, having read, seen or experienced it. The students are already acquainted with the work of Shakespeare. Employees should be fully acquainted with emergency procedures.
As long as you know something or someone fairly well, you are acquainted with it, so you can be acquainted with a city, a mathematical idea, or a particular poem. The trickiest thing about the word acquainted is the way it's spelled.
verb (used with object) to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with ): to acquaint the mayor with our plan. to furnish with knowledge; inform (usually followed by with ): to acquaint the manager with one's findings.
1. verb. If you acquaint someone with something, you tell them about it so that they know it. If you acquaint yourself with something, you learn about it. [formal] ...efforts to acquaint the public with their rights under the new law. [VERB noun + with] I want to acquaint myself with your strengths and weaknesses. [VERB pronoun-reflexive + with]
Definition of acquainted adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
