Membership vs Acquaintance - What's the difference?
membership | acquaintance | Related terms |
The state of being a member of a group or organization.
The body of members of an organization.
(set theory) The fact of being a member of a set.
(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
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(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
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Membership is a related term of acquaintance.
As nouns the difference between membership and acquaintance
is that membership is the state of being a member of a group or organization 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.membership
English
Noun
(en noun)- He has memberships in clubs in three cities.
- The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention.
Derived terms
* membership card * membership functionacquaintance
English
(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.