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familiar [ fa·mil·i·ar ]
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1. Well known from long or close association.
Phil's motives and experience sounds very familiar.
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2. Often encountered or experienced; common.
These situations have become familiar and common to most of us.
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3. (familiar with) Having a good knowledge of.
ensure that you are familiar with the heating controls
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4. In close friendship; intimate.
The old man was on familiar terms with Matusoka Tamaki.
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5. Informal or intimate to an inappropriate degree.
There is no room for your overly familiar, glaringly inappropriate questions.
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Noun
1. A demon supposedly attending and obeying a witch, often said to assume the form of an animal.
Familiars were usually small animals such as dogs, cats, toads, mice and owls. Many witches' familiars had unusual names.
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2. A close friend or associate.
His son, James Maury, a familiar of this group, was in after years appointed first United States Consul to Liverpool by George Washington.
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3. (in the Roman Catholic Church) a person rendering certain services in a pope's or bishop's household.
Familiars actually dwelling in a monastery may receive their Easter Communion in the church or chapel of the monastery.
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1. Middle English (in the sense ‘intimate’, ‘on a family footing’): from Old French familier, from Latin familiaris, from familia ‘household servants, family’, from famulus ‘servant’.
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