- acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy - personal knowledge or information about someone or something
--1 is a kind of information
Derived form: verb acquaint1 - acquaintance, acquaintanceship - a relationship less intimate than friendship
--2 is a kind of relationship
- acquaintance, friend - a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"
--3 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--3 has particulars:bunkmate; campmate; connection; end man; homeboy; messmate; pickup; schoolmate, classmate, schoolfellow, class fellow