When something is so commonplace you know it well, it's familiar. A familiar song might be one that you hum along to without even thinking about it.
Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.
Noun
a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
Noun
a person who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"
Noun
a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support
Adjective S.
having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"
Adjective
well known or easily recognized; "a familiar figure"; "familiar songs"; "familiar guests"
Adjective
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"
a.
Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.
a.
Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion;
well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the
Scriptures.
a.
Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an
intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible.
a.
Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a
familiar illustration.
a.
Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate.
n.
An intimate; a companion.
n.
An attendant demon or evil spirit.
n.
A confidential officer employed in the service of the
tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.
Familiar
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.4.
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be As things acquainted and familiar to us.
There is nothing more familiar than this.5.
Familiar
All my familiars watched for my halting.2.
Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.
An intimate; a companion.
Usage Examples
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.
Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.
Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
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Other Usage ExamplesFeature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.
I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.
I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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