familiar
IPA: fʌmˈɪɫjɝ
noun
- (witchcraft) An attendant spirit, often in animal or demon form.
- (obsolete) A member of one's family or household.
- A member of a pope's or bishop's household.
- (obsolete) A close friend.
- (historical) The officer of the Inquisition who arrested suspected people.
adjective
- Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.
- Acquainted.
- Intimate or friendly.
- Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
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Examples of "familiar" in Sentences
- The third reason is familiarity.
- It also requires familiarization.
- I am familiar with the traditions.
- Familiarize yourself with the rules.
- Another familiar caustic is the rainbow.
- Are you familiar with any of the rovers
- I am not familiar with this collocation.
- Dangdut music is familiar with the rabble.
- He familiarizes the technology of the computer.
- Familiarization with flights is a learning experience.
- Also featuring in Group C will be a name familiar to many New York basketball fans.
- Walker first became a name familiar to the public when she starred in the TV series Profiler.
- Finally Simon Hopkinson, a name familiar to lovers of good food writing, published The Good Cook, to go with the BBC series.
- Seated at the head of the table the chief, or, in his absence, a representative, made the opening speech -- the address of welcome, to use the term familiar to ourselves.
- "He wasn't a name familiar with me, I am told that he rejoined the News of the World in 2005, 2006, and he worked for the News of the World and many other newspapers in the late 1990s."
- "He didn't invent 'method acting' (Stanislavsky did), but he made the term familiar around the world, revolutionizing the actor's art with his natural, tortured and spontaneous early performances," Seiler says.
- However, 'blog implies that the user is certainly familiar with the term familiar enough to know it is derived from weblog or web log, but you never see 'b'log, do you? but feels some sort of anachronistic pull to demean the word with unnecessary punctuation; to say it can't stand on its own.
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