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Meaning of "preacquaintance" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PREACQUAINTANCE

preacquaintance  [ˌpriːəˈkweɪntəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREACQUAINTANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Preacquaintance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PREACQUAINTANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of preacquaintance in the English dictionary

The definition of preacquaintance in the dictionary is prior acquaintance with a person or with information, the state of having been preacquainted.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREACQUAINTANCE


acceptance
əkˈsɛptəns
acquaintance
əˈkweɪntəns
assistance
əˈsɪstəns
competence
ˈkɒmpɪtəns
distance
ˈdɪstəns
existence
ɪɡˈzɪstəns
importance
ɪmˈpɔːtəns
instance
ˈɪnstəns
mid-sentence
ˌmɪdˈsentəns
nonsentence
ˌnɒnˈsentəns
presentence
priːˈsentəns
reacquaintance
ˌriːəˈkweɪntəns
repentance
rɪˈpɛntəns
resentence
riːˈsentəns
resistance
rɪˈzɪstəns
sentence
ˈsɛntəns
subsentence
ˈsʌbˌsɛntəns
substance
ˈsʌbstəns
unacquaintance
ˌʌnəˈkweɪntəns
unrepentance
ˌʌnrɪˈpɛntəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREACQUAINTANCE

preach to the choir
preachable
preacher
preacher curl
preachership
preachier
preachiest
preachified
preachifies
preachify
preachifying
preachily
preachiness
preachingly
preachment
preachy
preacquaint
preacquisition
preacquisition profit
preact

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREACQUAINTANCE

admittance
advance
amount of substance
antimicrobial resistance
capacitance
conductance
Constance
court of first instance
for instance
inductance
inheritance
line of least resistance
long-distance
reflectance
reluctance
remittance
social assistance
stance
the distance
the Resistance
walking distance

Synonyms and antonyms of preacquaintance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «preacquaintance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PREACQUAINTANCE

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Translator English - Chinese

preacquaintance
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

preacquaintance
570 millions of speakers

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preacquaintance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

preacquaintance
380 millions of speakers
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preacquaintance
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preacquaintance
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preacquaintance
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

preacquaintance
260 millions of speakers

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preacquaintance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Preacquaintance
190 millions of speakers

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preacquaintance
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

preacquaintance
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

preacquaintance
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Preacquaintance
85 millions of speakers
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preacquaintance
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

preacquaintance
75 millions of speakers

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प्राधान्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

preacquaintance
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

preacquaintance
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

preacquaintance
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

preacquaintance
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

preacquaintance
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

preacquaintance
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

preacquaintance
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

preacquaintance
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

preacquaintance
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of preacquaintance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREACQUAINTANCE»

The term «preacquaintance» is normally little used and occupies the 145.511 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PREACQUAINTANCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «preacquaintance» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «preacquaintance» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about preacquaintance

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREACQUAINTANCE»

Discover the use of preacquaintance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to preacquaintance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Communication Yearbook 14
In fact, expectthese goals itmay be that individuals anticipate relatively stable, predictable, and controllable interactions duringinitial acquaintance,even inthe absence of preacquaintance information. Normally proceeding get acquainted ...
James A. Anderson, 2011
2
Person Perception and Interpersonal Behavior
The preacquaintance data showed, with unexpected exactness, who would most probably be members of the same cliques, if they came to belong to any clique at all. The data which proved to have this predictive value consisted simply of ...
Renato Tagiuri, Luigi Petrullo, 1958
3
Alfred Schutz's Sociological Aspect of Literature: ...
The depth of the beholder's experience of a work is directly proportional to her preacquaintance with this horizon, the history and anatomy of literature. The greater her grasp of literary culture, the richer her understanding of any given work.
Lester Embree, 1998
4
Western Journal of Speech Communications
While this research has been limited to same-sex pairs, the past research findings which appear to generalize to preacquaintance have been produced with both same- and opposite-sex pairs. This evidence combined with the interpersonal ...
‎1984
5
Representative Research in Social Psychology
Such a qualification takes on added importance in view of the fact that the preacquaintance information regarding other people quite frequently relates to only a few attitudes. Unfortunately, the only study of which we are aware that has  ...
‎1974
6
The Presbyterian Journal
means preacquaintance." Let's try that out. God is aware of all mankind. He was preac- quainted with everyone. Therefore, if foreknowledge is preacquaintance, then everyone is foreknown, predestined, called, justified and glorified. Everyone  ...
George Aiken Taylor, 1975
7
An account of the English colony in New South Wales: with ...
... Whether it had ever appeared among them before could not be discovered; either from him or from the children; but it was certain that they gave it a name ( gal-gal-la); a circumstance which seemed to indicate a preacquaintance with it.
David Collins, Philip Gidley King, George Bass, 1798
8
Constructing the World
Salmon(1998) andSoames (1995) takerelated viewson which although the content ofa descriptivename preacquaintance is still its referent, the acquaintanceless userofthe relevant name is unable to fully grasp propositions involving this ...
David J. Chalmers, 2012
9
Communication Yearbook 10
Preacquaintance attitude similarity and attraction revisited: Ten days in afall-out shelter. Sociometry, 37, 162-173. Hallinan, M. T. (1982). Cognitive balance and differential popularity in social networks. Social Psychology Quarterly, 45, 86-90.
Margaret L. McLaughlin, 2012
10
The Other Husserl: The Horizons of Transcendental Phenomenology
... a positive and a phenomenological characterization of world. C. WORLD AS TOTALITY AND WORLD AS HORIZON We have suggested that (a) our everyday acquaintance with things and places involves a preacquaintance with the world,  ...
Donn Welton, 2002

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Preacquaintance [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/preacquaintance>. May 2024 ».
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