n. The state of being acquainted, or of being more or less intimately conversant (used with reference to both persons and things); knowledge of; experience in: used with with, and formerly sometimes with of.n. A person known to one, especially a person with whom one is not on terms of great intimacy: as, he is not a friend, only an acquaintance.n. The whole body of those with whom one is acquainted: used as a plural, as if for acquaintances. See acquaintant.