ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acknowledgement mean? 

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (noun)
  The noun ACKNOWLEDGEMENT has 2 senses:

1. the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

2. a statement acknowledging something or someone

  Familiarity information: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition

Context example:

she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own

Hypernyms ("acknowledgement" is a kind of...):

acceptance (the state of being acceptable and accepted)

Attribute:

acknowledged (recognized or made known or admitted)

unacknowledged (not recognized or admitted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A statement acknowledging something or someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

acknowledgement; acknowledgment

Context example:

the preface contained an acknowledgment of those who had helped her

Hypernyms ("acknowledgement" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acknowledgement"):

credits (a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film))

receipt (an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made)

farewell; word of farewell (an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting)

greeting; salutation ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))

aloha; ciao (an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian))

handclasp; handshake; handshaking; shake (grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract))

apology (an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone)

mea culpa (an acknowledgment of your error or guilt)

commiseration; condolence (an expression of sympathy with another's grief)

declination; regrets (a polite refusal of an invitation)

admission (an acknowledgment of the truth of something)

thanks (an acknowledgment of appreciation)

 Context examples 

This is the acknowledgement I WILL HAVE.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A document providing formal acknowledgement of a grant application's approval for funding.

(Notice of Grant Award, NCI Thesaurus)

All day passed and a part of the next before any acknowledgement arrived, and she was beginning to fear she had offended her crochety friend.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I made my acknowledgements by prostrating myself at his majesty’s feet: but he commanded me to rise; and after many gracious expressions, which, to avoid the censure of vanity, I shall not repeat, he added, that he hoped I should prove a useful servant, and well deserve all the favours he had already conferred upon me, or might do for the future.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She could think only of the invitation she had with such astonishment witnessed, and of the manner in which it had been received; a manner of doubtful meaning, of surprise rather than gratification, of polite acknowledgement rather than acceptance.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I knew that he was a widower with one daughter, and expressed my acknowledgements.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And there, as they slowly paced the gradual ascent, heedless of every group around them, seeing neither sauntering politicians, bustling housekeepers, flirting girls, nor nursery-maids and children, they could indulge in those retrospections and acknowledgements, and especially in those explanations of what had directly preceded the present moment, which were so poignant and so ceaseless in interest.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Encouraged by these gracious words, and by my aunt's extending her hand, Barkis came forward, and took the hand, and curtseyed her acknowledgements.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She could not distinguish, but she must guess the subject; and on Captain Wentworth's making a distant bow, she comprehended that her father had judged so well as to give him that simple acknowledgement of acquaintance, and she was just in time by a side glance to see a slight curtsey from Elizabeth herself.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I'm umbly thankful to you, sir, said Mrs. Heep, in acknowledgement of my inquiries concerning her health, but I'm only pretty well.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)