Hyphenation of acquaintance

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word acquaintance? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

ac-quain-tance

Definitions of acquaintance:

1.	Personal knowledge or information about someone or something
2.	A relationship less intimate than friendship
3.	A person with whom you are acquainted I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances We are friends of the family

Synonyms of acquaintance:

noun	familiarity, conversance, conversancy, information
noun	acquaintanceship, relationship
noun	friend, person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.