• (General American, Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /əˈkweɪntɪd/
• (General Australian)IPA^(key): /əˈkwæɪntəd/

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• Hyphenation:ac‧quaint‧ed

acquainted (comparativemoreacquainted,superlativemostacquainted)

1. (often followed bywith) Personallyknown;familiar.
   • 1748, [David Hume], “Essay II. Of the Origin of Ideas.”, inPhilosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […],→OCLC,page26:

     Suppoſe, therefore, a Perſon to have enjoy'd his Sight for thirty Years, and to have become perfectly wellacquainted with Colours of all kinds, excepting one particular Shade of Blue, for Inſtance, which it never has been his Fortune to meet with.

   • 1927,Robert Frost, “Acquainted with the Night”, inThe Poems of Robert Frost: […], New York, N.Y.:The Modern Library, published1946,→OCLC, stanza 1:

     I have been oneacquainted with the night.
     I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
     I have outwalked the furthest city light.

acquainted

1. simplepast andpastparticiple ofacquaint

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