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My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.
Fred Armisen

Meaning of "familiar" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FAMILIAR

From Latin familiāris domestic, from familiafamily.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FAMILIAR

familiar  [fəˈmɪlɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FAMILIAR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Familiar can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FAMILIAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

familiar

Familiar spirit

In European folklore and folk-belief of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, familiar spirits were supernatural entities believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic. According to the records of the time, they would appear in numerous guises, often as an animal, but also at times as a human or humanoid figure, and were described as "clearly defined, three-dimensional… forms, vivid with colour and animated with movement and sound" by those alleging to have come into contact with them, unlike later descriptions of ghosts with their "smoky, undefined form". When they served witches, they were often thought to be malevolent, while when working for cunning-folk they were often thought of as benevolent. The former were often categorised as demons, while the latter were more commonly thought of and described as fairies. The main purpose of familiars is to serve the witch or young witch, providing protection for him/her as they come into their new powers.

Definition of familiar in the English dictionary

The first definition of familiar in the dictionary is well-known; easily recognized. Other definition of familiar is frequent or customary. Familiar is also foll by with acquainted.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FAMILIAR


Athalia
əˈθeɪlɪə
Australia
ɒˈstreɪlɪə
biophilia
ˌbaɪəʊˈfɪlɪə
cilia
ˈsɪlɪə
conciliar
kənˈsɪlɪə
galea
ˈɡeɪlɪə
genitalia
ˌdʒɛnɪˈteɪlɪə
ilia
ˈɪlɪə
memorabilia
ˌmɛmərəˈbɪlɪə
milia
ˈmɪlɪə
overfamiliar
ˌəʊvəfəˈmɪlɪə
paedophilia
ˌpiːdəʊˈfɪlɪə
palea
ˈpeɪlɪə
paraphernalia
ˌpærəfəˈneɪlɪə
pedophilia
ˌpiːdəʊˈfɪlɪə
personalia
ˌpɜːsəˈneɪlɪə
realia
rɪˈeɪlɪə
regalia
rɪˈɡeɪlɪə
Westphalia
wɛstˈfeɪlɪə
wilier
ˈwaɪlɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FAMILIAR

familial
familiar spirit
familiarisation
familiariser
familiarities
familiarity
familiarization
familiarize
familiarizer
familiarly
familiarly known as sb/sth
familiarness
families
Familism
Familist
familistic
famille
family
family album
family allowance

WORDS THAT END LIKE FAMILIAR

antiar
atrabiliar
Black Friar
briar
caviar
Eilean Siar
evangeliar
fiar
foliar
friar
gangliar
Grey Friar
justiciar
liar
peculiar
preconciliar
sweetbriar
ultrafamiliar
unfamiliar
White Friar

Synonyms and antonyms of familiar in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FAMILIAR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «familiar» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of familiar

Translation of «familiar» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FAMILIAR

Find out the translation of familiar to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of familiar from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «familiar» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

熟悉的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

familiar
570 millions of speakers

English

familiar
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परिचित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَأْلُوف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

знакомый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

familiar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পরিচিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

familier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Biasa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bekannt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

よく知られている
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잘 알려져 있는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Menowo
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quen thuộc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பழக்கமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परिचित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tanıdık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

familiare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

znajomy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

знайомий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cunoscut
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οικείος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vertroud
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förtrolig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fortrolig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of familiar

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FAMILIAR»

The term «familiar» is very widely used and occupies the 4.142 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FAMILIAR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about familiar

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10 QUOTES WITH «FAMILIAR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word familiar.
1
Lascelles Abercrombie
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
2
Peter Abrahams
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.
3
Trace Adkins
It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.
4
Viswanathan Anand
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.
5
Fred Armisen
My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.
6
Jacques Barzun
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.
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Justine Bateman
There's an awful lot of choices in the world as far as what one can do for a living. It's best to be familiar with as many sectors of the working world as you can be so you'll be better at your creative job anyway.
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Adam Beach
I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
9
Michael Behe
In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.
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Philippa Boyens
It is hard to go back into a world that has already been explored, so to speak. And the fans are very passionate about it, and you don't want to burst that bubble; you don't want to break that illusion. You want to get it right. You want it to feel familiar, but also surprising.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAMILIAR»

Discover the use of familiar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to familiar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Familiar: A Novel
In Familiar, J. Robert Lennon continues his profound and exhilarating exploration of the surreal undercurrents of contemporary American life.
J. Robert Lennon, 2012
2
How to Summons a Familiar Spirit for Witches and Magicians
This book, How to Summons a Familiar Spirit for Witches and Magicians, shows you step by step how to quickly and easily find or create a familiar spirit in easy to follow exercises and rituals.
Kuriakos, 2008
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Familiar strangers: a history of Muslims in Northwest China
While narrating a history of the Muslims of northwest China, this book examines the nature of ethnicity and periphery, the role of religion and ethnicity in personal and collective decisions in violent times, and the complexity of belonging ...
Jonathan Neaman Lipman, 1998
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Focusing the Familiar: A Translation and Philosophical ...
They present the text in such a way as to provide Western philosophers and other intellectuals access to a set of interpretations and arguments that offer new insights into issues and concerns common to both Chinese and Western thinkers.
Roger T. Ames, David L. Hall, 2001
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Altered English: Surprising Meanings of Familiar Words
Study the altered meanings in this fun book and you'll be able to "razzle-dazzle" (originally, a daylong drinking bout) your friends and acquaintances.
Jeffrey Kacirk, 2002
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Strangely familiar: design and everyday life
This richly illustrated volume includes essays on the tactics of formlessness and its impact on everyday consumption, the potential of an endlessly transformable environment to extend product lifecycles, and ruminations on the strange and ...
Andrew Blauvelt, Walker Art Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2003
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The Temple of My Familiar
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Alice Walker, 2011
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Beyond the Familiar: Long-Term Growth Through Customer Focus ...
Because they meet customer needs better than the competition, again and again, they are able to generate sustainable, profitable, market-leading organic growth. The problem the book addresses is how to achieve this.
Patrick Barwise, Sean Meehan, 2011
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American Culture: Essays on the Familiar and Unfamiliar
The essays address a wide range of topics and a spectrum of occupations-miners, whalers, farmers, factory workers, physicians and nurses-to consider such questions as why some religious sects remain distinctive, separate, and viable; how ...
Leonard Plotnicov, 1990
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Nine Familiar Fables
" You'll read this book in an hour or two, and become familiar with more than 1,200 standardized test vocabulary words, boosting your scores effortlessly. The author is a Learning Specialist who also coaches standardized tests.
Hugh Conlon, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FAMILIAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term familiar is used in the context of the following news items.
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Angels lose to familiar foe, Seattle's Felix Hernandez, 7-2
The Angels were rolling, winning five straight and nine of 10 games, and their once-anemic offense was on fire, producing 46 runs and 67 hits, ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
2
Inevitability of Serena Williams against Sharapova is numbingly …
... the semi-final between Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova to be supplanted by an inevitability that has become numbingly familiar. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Fourth District primary is a fight among familiar faces
Former Assembly Speaker John Oceguera will certainly be seeing a lot of familiar faces on the trail as he campaigns for Congress in the Fourth ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»
4
Yankees have familiar obstacle in way of AL East lead: Red Sox at …
The Yankees have one more hurdle to clear if they are to reach the All-Star break in first place in the AL East, this weekend's series against the ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
5
Ullrich: Familiar faces, but in different places as Lions face Riders
You might say familiarity can breed a football game. There are numerous storylines that may play out in the regular-season home-opener at ... «The Province, Jul 15»
6
Familiar name in banking returns to Murfreesboro
1 CONNECT 2 TWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE. MURFREESBORO – A familiar name in banking has returned to Rutherford County. «The Daily News Journal, Jul 15»
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PHOTOS: New Crime Stoppers fugitives includes familiar face
One of the names on this list might sound familiar: Nathan Calvert. Calvert is considered a career criminal by local police. In 2011, Calvert was ... «KULR-TV, Jul 15»
8
1 Metric General Motors Company Investors Need to Get Familiar With
1 Metric General Motors Company Investors Need to Get Familiar With. Let's take a look at a valuable investing metric, the Return on Invested ... «Motley Fool, Jul 15»
9
At Arundel, Necessary moves up while a familiar face moves in
That goal has been met as a familiar face will patrol the sidelines next spring for the Wildcats. Larry Kramer will succeed Necessary at Arundel, ... «CapitalGazette.com, Jul 15»
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Parsonsfield: A Familiar Sound With A New Name
Parsonsfield. From left to right, Erik Hischmann, Max Shakun, Harrison Goodale, Chris Freeman and Antonio Alcorn. (Courtesy Sarah ... «WBUR, Jul 15»

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