Roommate vs Acquaintance - What's the difference?
roommate | acquaintance |
A person with whom one shares a room, as at university etc.
A person with whom one shares an apartment or house (UK: flatmate or housemate).
(uncountable) A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy
* 1799 , '', in ''The Works , Volume 6,
(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
* 1848 , , Chapter XVI:
As nouns the difference between roommate and acquaintance
is that roommate is a person with whom one shares a room, as at university etc while acquaintance is (uncountable) a state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy.roommate
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(wikipedia roommate)Derived terms
* roommatehoodSynonyms
* (informal) roomie * (US ) flatmate, housemateacquaintance
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* acquaintaunceNoun
(en noun)- I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
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- Contract no friend?hip, or even acquaintance , with a guileful man : he re?embles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it.
- Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.