Vocabulary
Acquaintance
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
knowledge or experience of something.
Urdu meaning
شناسائی، جان پہچان، روشناس
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Iqbal`s thorough acquaintance with the thought-classics and actual state of affairs of both the Muslim East and the West had uniquely equipped him to judge their performance.
- Each one of them has lost a family member or acquaintance in the genocide that has left more than 46,000 people dead and thousands of others gravely injured.
- Each one of them has lost a family member or acquaintance in the genocide that has left more than 46,000 people dead and thousands of others gravely injured.
- UK data has shown the majority of child sexual abuse is perpetrated by a family member, friend or acquaintance.
- LAST semester, an acquaintance taught, as adjunct faculty, a course at a very well-known and probably the best public sector university in the country.
Synonyms
familiarity, conversance, conversancy, contact, acquaintanceship, knowledge of, experience of
Antonyms
ignorance, unfamiliarity, inexperience
Curator example
“the pupils had little acquaintance with the language”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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