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ACQUIREMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ability that has been acquired by training
Synonyms:
accomplishment; acquirement; acquisition; attainment; skill
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("acquirement" is a kind of...):
ability; power (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acquirement"):
craft; craftsmanship; workmanship (skill in an occupation or trade)
horsemanship (skill in handling and riding horses)
literacy (the ability to read and write)
marksmanship (skill in shooting)
mastership (the skill of a master)
mixology (skill in preparing mixed drinks)
numeracy (skill with numbers and mathematics)
oarsmanship (skill as an oarsman)
salesmanship (skill in selling; skill in persuading people to buy)
seamanship (skill in sailing)
showmanship (the ability to present something (especially theatrical shows) in an attractive manner)
soldiering; soldiership (skills that are required for the life of soldier)
swordsmanship (skill in fencing)
Context examples:
Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School—not of a seminary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems—and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity—but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The Miss Bertrams were now fully established among the belles of the neighbourhood; and as they joined to beauty and brilliant acquirements a manner naturally easy, and carefully formed to general civility and obligingness, they possessed its favour as well as its admiration.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Gentlemen especially are often in request on such occasions; and Mr. Rochester is so talented and so lively in society, that I believe he is a general favourite: the ladies are very fond of him; though you would not think his appearance calculated to recommend him particularly in their eyes: but I suppose his acquirements and abilities, perhaps his wealth and good blood, make amends for any little fault of look.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
