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Familiar

adjective

1.

Well known or easily recognized. "Familiar songs" , "Familiar guests" Antonym: unfamiliar.

2.

Within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange. "A familiar everyday scene" , "A familiar excuse" , "A day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences" Antonym: strange.

3.

(usually followed by 'with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly. Synonym: conversant. "Familiar with the complex machinery" , "He was familiar with those roads"

4.

Having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship. Synonym: intimate. "Pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"

noun

1.

A person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support.

2.

A friend who is frequently in the company of another. Synonyms: associate, companion, comrade, fellow. "Comrades in arms"

3.

A spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard. Synonym: familiar spirit.

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"Familiar" Quotes from Famous Books

... the haven therewithal, and fair and happy west Swelleth the sails: o'er whirl of waves full speedily they wend, And glad to that familiar sand they turn them in the end: But there Acestes meeteth them, who from a mountain high All wondering had seen afar the friendly ships draw nigh. With darts he bristled, and was clad in fell of Libyan bear. Him erst unto Crimisus' flood ...

— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil

... would only have provoked disobedience had all sorts of climbing been forbidden, for the temptation to try to outdo each other in their imitation of the sailors, was quite irresistible; and not a rope in the rigging, nor a corner in the ship, but they were familiar with before the first few days were over. "And, indeed, they were wonderfully preserved, the foolish lads," their father acknowledged, and grew content about them ...

— Janet's Love and Service • Margaret M Robertson

... of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen. Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face We first ...

— Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" • John T. Slattery

... had revived thoughts of his old home and its associations, and instead of awaiting other reasons for a return he made her the operating one. About a week later he stood once again at the foot of the familiar steep whereon the houses at the entrance to the Isle were perched like grey pigeons on ...

— The Well-Beloved • Thomas Hardy

... fictitious, and that the men adopted them partly to conceal their real names, and partly because they supposed that they should ingratiate themselves more fully with the lower classes of the people by assuming these familiar ...

— Richard II - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

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