1 ~ (to sb) well known to you; often seen or heard and therefore easy to recognize:
to look / sound / taste familiar * He's a familiar figure in the neighbourhood. * The smell is very familiar to everyone who lives near a bakery. * Something about her voice was vaguely familiar. * Violent attacks are becoming all too familiar (= sadly familiar). * I couldn't see any familiar faces in the room.
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2 ~ with sth knowing sth very well:
an area with which I had been familiar since childhood * By now you will be familiar with the one-way system in the centre of town. * Are you familiar with the computer software they use?
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3 ~ (with sb) (of a person's behaviour) very informal, sometimes in a way that is unpleasant:
You seem to be on very familiar terms with your tutor. * After a few drinks her boss started getting too familiar for her liking.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for familiar is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is familiar a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, familiar is tagged as adjective.
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