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| acquaintance |
a person one has met but does not know well. [1/2 definitions] |
| first |
The first is the beginning. If you liked your friend from the first, it means that you liked your friend from the beginning, or from the time you met. [1/5 definitions] |
| guarantee |
a promise to make sure that some duty or responsibility will be met. [1/5 definitions] |
| impressed |
having a strong, lasting, or positive feeling about someone or something as a response to having met or encountered that person or thing. |
| know |
When you know someone, it means that you have met them or you are familiar with them in some way. When you know a thing, that thing is not new to you. [1/4 definitions] |
| knowledge |
When you have knowledge of something, you have been introduced to it before. It is not a new or surprising thing for you. When you have knowledge of a person, they are not new to you. You have met them or learned about them before. [1/2 definitions] |
| met |
"Met" is the past tense and past participle of "meet." |
| place |
If you cannot place someone, you know or think you have met them before, but you can't remember who they are or how you know them. If you can't place something, you know it's part of your past, but you can't remember it exactly. [1/13 definitions] |
| pledge |
something given to make sure that an agreement is met. [1/7 definitions] |
| recognize |
If you recognize someone that you have never met before, you are able to tell who they are from information that you already have about them. [1/4 definitions] |
| strange |
A strange place is a place you have never been to before. When someone is strange to you, it means that you do not know them. You have never seen them or met them before. [1/3 definitions] |
| unknown |
When we talk about "the unknown," we mean places, things, and people that nobody knows or has ever seen or met before. [1/2 definitions] |
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