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Definition of Familiar

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

2. Adjective. Well known or easily recognized. "Familiar guests"

3. Noun. A friend who is frequently in the company of another. "Comrades in arms"

4. Adjective. Within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange. "A day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences"

5. Noun. A spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard.

6. Adjective. (usually followed by 'with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly. "He was familiar with those roads"

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

Definition of Familiar

1. a. Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.

2. n. An intimate; a companion.

Definition of Familiar

1. Adjective. Known to one. ¹

2. Adjective. Acquainted. ¹

3. Adjective. Intimate or friendly. ¹

4. Adjective. Inappropriately intimate or friendly. ¹

5. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a family; familial. ¹

6. Noun. (obsolete) A member of one's family or household. ¹

7. Noun. (obsolete) A close friend. ¹

8. Noun. An attendant spirit often in animal form. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Familiar

1. a close friend or associate [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Familiar

familial paroxysmal rhabdomyolysis familial periodic paralysis familial polyposis familial polyposis coli familial pseudoinflammatory macular degeneration familial pseudoinflammatory maculopathy familial pyridoxine-responsive anaemia familial recurrent polyserositis familial screening familial spinal muscular atrophy

familial tremor familial white folded dysplasia familiality familially familiar (current term) familiar(p) familiar spirit familiar with(p) familiarisation familiarise

familiarised familiarises familiarising familiarities familiarity breeds contempt familiarization familiarizations familiarize

Literary usage of Familiar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"familiar stroke of the cane against his calf and had heard the familiar word of admonition: — Admit. It was towards the close of his first term in the ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1881)
"Our familiar Songs," promised for last Christmas, has only recently been published. It makes a beautiful gift book, and one ihat every member of the ..."

3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"A familiar EPISTLE. TO A FRIEND WHO SENT THE AUTHOR A ... FOND of the loose familiar vein, Which neither tires, nor cracks the brain, Tlie Muse is rather ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"The situation of the unfortunate city, the aspect of the streets and buildings, the dress and faces of the inhabitants, were familiar, and even present, ..."

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