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familiar

• (a) well known or easily recognized
  • a familiar figure
  • familiar songs
  • familiar guests
• (a) within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange
  • familiar ordinary objects found in every home
  • a familiar everyday scene
  • a familiar excuse
  • a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences
• (s) (usually followed by "with") well informed about or knowing thoroughly
  • conversant with business trends
  • familiar with the complex machinery
  • he was familiar with those roads
  conversant,
• (s) having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship
  • on familiar terms
  • pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders
  intimate,

Nouns

• (n) a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support
• (n) a friend who is frequently in the company of another
  • drinking companions
  • comrades in arms
  companion, comrade, associate, fellow,
• (n) a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard familiar spirit,

Synonyms

companion comrade associate fellow familiar spirit conversant intimate

Antonyms

unfamiliar strange unusual

See also

known

Words of close approximity