Word.ws English Dictionary

bowing acquaintance

bowing acquaintance noun: synonym of nodding acquaintance (“casual or partial familiarity”).

Noun

bowing acquaintance (plural bowing acquaintances)

  1. (dated) Synonym of nodding acquaintance (“casual or partial familiarity”).

Synonyms of bowing acquaintance

Forms of bowing acquaintance

pluralbowing acquaintances

Questions about bowing acquaintance

What does bowing acquaintance mean?
Bowing acquaintance means synonym of nodding acquaintance (“casual or partial familiarity”).
What part of speech is bowing acquaintance?
Bowing acquaintance is a noun.
What is the plural of bowing acquaintance?
The plural of bowing acquaintance is bowing acquaintances.

Words near bowing acquaintance in the dictionary

  1. bowieite
  2. Bowieites
  3. bowies
  4. Bowiesque
  5. bowing
  6. bowing acquaintance
  7. bowing and scraping
  8. bowing down
  9. bowing down before the porcelain god
  10. bowing in
  11. bowing out

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bowing acquaintance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bowing acquaintance.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bowing_acquaintance. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.