reacquaintance
- noun
- /ˌriːəˈkwɛɪntəns/
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reconocimiento
- At the reunion, she chatted warmly with a long-lost reacquaintance from college.
Examples
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After years apart, she had a pleasant reacquaintance with her old friend.
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Their reacquaintance was filled with laughter and memories.
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He was delighted to make a reacquaintance with his childhood neighbor after so many years.
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The conference provided an opportunity for reacquaintance with former colleagues.
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At the reunion, she chatted warmly with a long-lost reacquaintance from college.
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He was delighted to make a reacquaintance with his childhood neighbor after so many years.
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After years apart, she had a pleasant reacquaintance with her old friend.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
reacquaintance = acquaintance (semi-transparent) = re + acquaint + ance
The connection to 'acquaintance' is clear, but using re- to denote the person one becomes acquainted with again is less fully predictable than an event or process reading.
Etymology
Reacquaintance is made of re- meaning 'again' and acquaintance meaning 'a person you know'. So a reacquaintance is someone you meet again after a period apart.