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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

... forgive my many shortcomings, and look upon my few virtues. Above all things, I think I can say that with all reasonableness I have held to the truth. Most of the people of Keighley and the surrounding towns and villages are familiar with the name, at least, of Bill o' th' Hoylus End. Without appearing vain or egotistical, I think I may say that I have been recognised by high and low, rich and poor, and by people not altogether unknown to fame. Of all my friends, ...

— Adventures and Recollections • Bill o'th' Hoylus End

... in the order in which I hand them to you, and send me the names by number. I am pretty thoroughly familiar with them, and if you will keep them in order, there is no need for me to keep a list. The first is a blade ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various

... similar in all these buildings. In the English house Gervaise had not felt strange, as he had the companionship of his fellow voyagers; but as he followed Sir Guy through the spacious halls of the langue of Auvergne, where no familiar face met his, he felt more lonely than he had done since he entered the house ...

— A Knight of the White Cross • G.A. Henty

... have vanished; and I hear—I hear the pensive music of the horse-car bells, which in some alien land, I am sure, would be as pathetic to me as the Ranz des Vaches to the Swiss or the bagpipes to the Highlander: in the desert, where the traveller seems to hear the familiar bells of his far-off church, this tinkle would haunt the absolute silence, and recall the exile's fancy to Charlesbridge; and perhaps in the mocking mirage he would behold an airy horse-car track, and a phantasmagoric horse-car moving slowly along the ...

— Suburban Sketches • W.D. Howells

... hot, favorable weather—has been a good summer—the growth of clover and grass now generally mow'd. The familiar delicious perfume fills the barns and lanes. As you go along you see the fields of grayish white slightly tinged with yellow, the loosely stack'd grain, the slow-moving wagons passing, and farmers in the fields with stout boys ...

— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

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