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UK
/fəmˈɪliə/
]
[ US /fəˈmɪɫjɝ/ ]
[ US /fəˈmɪɫjɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support
- a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
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a friend who is frequently in the company of another
drinking companions
comrades in arms
ADJECTIVE
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having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship
pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders
on familiar terms -
(usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly
conversant with business trends
familiar with the complex machinery
he was familiar with those roads -
well known or easily recognized
familiar guests
a familiar figure
familiar songs -
within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange
a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences
a familiar everyday scene
familiar ordinary objects found in every home
a familiar excuse
How To Use familiar In A Sentence
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
- The right back found himself in unfamiliar territory in the opposing penalty area after a swift exchange of passes that opened up Reading's defence. Times, Sunday Times
- Inhuman hours, back-stabbing competition, abuse by superiors; it's all familiar now.
- I lashed the clothes that I had been brought to wear at the hospital into the bag, a couple of ancient pairs of socks that felt suddenly found and familiar.
- Thell Torrence's name may not be familiar to the average fight fan but he, along with a couple of others, is the premier teacher of the manly art in the USA.
- He was pulling away from a couple of golfers who were smoking cigars and looked familiar.
- More particularly, in the hoodedness of her eyes, she reminded me of Malvina Schalkova, the Prague-born artist posthumously famous for the sketches and watercolors she made in Theresienstadt, and whose self-portrait, mirroring an infinity of sorrow, I first became familiar with when I visited Theresienstadt with Zoë. Kalooki Nights
- The giant cross has become a familiar landmark to generations of San Franciscans.
- The geography was utterly alien to Patrick, although his unfamiliarity with the picture could have been attributed to the gaps.