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familiar English

Meaning familiar meaning

What does familiar mean?
Definitions in simple English

familiar

If something is familiar, you already know it or about it. "Three strikes and you're out" is a very familiar phrase these days. The words sounded very familiar to her, and then she remembered: she had written them. Why would someone leave familiar territory and travel all this distance. People sitting on the grass was a familiar sight on Saturdays in the park. New a month ago, he's become quite familiar to all of us. If you are familiar with something, you already know it or about it. What does that mean? I'm not familiar with the word? If you are being familiar, you are acting in a friendly way.

familiar

A familiar is the magical pet of a witch, often a cat.

familiar

well known or easily recognized a familiar figure familiar songs familiar guests 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 (= conversant) (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 (= intimate) having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship on familiar terms pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support (= companion, comrade) a friend who is frequently in the company of another drinking companions comrades in arms

Synonyms familiar synonyms

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Topics familiar topics

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  • What words describe an experience or feeling that you have had before?

Examples familiar examples

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Simple sentences

It looks familiar.
You look very familiar to me.
Why do you look familiar?
Tom looked somewhat familiar.
I'm not familiar with this topic.
I'm familiar with the area.
You will soon become familiar with it.
The tune was not familiar to me.
I'm not familiar with this part of the subject.
The truth of the story is familiar to you all.
That book is familiar to all young children.
The tale is familiar to us.
The author's name is familiar to us.
I'm not familiar with that subject.
The professor is familiar with contemporary literature.
The proverb is familiar.
Mrs Ogawa is familiar with this neighbourhood.
Are you familiar with this area?
We are familiar with the legend of Robin Hood.
I'm not familiar with French poets.
But his name is slightly familiar to me.
That song sounds familiar to me.
The song is familiar to us.
The saying is quite familiar to us.
This song is familiar to us.
This melody is familiar to many Japanese.
I am familiar with your name.
Your name is familiar to me.

Movie subtitles

Wait. you don't look familiar for some reason.
But.. how is it that this girl's face looks familiar..
Wait, why do you look so familiar?
Uhm. this sounds familiar.
Since when have we become so familiar?
Are you familiar with the law of divorce, mr. Hornblower?
I saw him getting familiar with you.
Is it not familiar to you?
You're familiar with this here.
You Look Familiar.
I will dismiss, discharge and disqualify any employee who gets familiar with the guests.
But what happens if the guests get familiar with us?
That word has a familiar sound.
I'm sure the familiar strains of Verdi's music will come back to you tonight. and Mrs. Claypool's checks will probably come back in the morning.
I asked you here because you're familiar with the Mitidja.
Your face is very familiar.
My friends, you are all familiar with Beaugard.
You are all familiar with the symptoms of cirrhosis.
You seem to be very familiar with the country.
I thought his face seemed familiar.
In case the score sounds somewhat familiar, but you can't quite place where else you heard it, how about trying Universal's 1930s Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials with Buster Crabbe?
I have a library- a very extensive library- and I require someone to take care of it- someone familiar with books.
We are all familiar with the business of this special meeting.
There was something grotesquely familiar about it.
I'm just becoming familiar with your work.
I must ask you not to be so familiar with my wife.
I can't quite explain it, but everything is somehow familiar.
Familiar words.
Why are you being familiar with M Lepic?
Don't start acting too familiar.
I thought that touch was familiar.
The name sounds familiar.
Are you familiar with Morocco?
Don't get familiar with me.
Don't get familiar?
That short one looks familiar. We had a strike meeting last night.
Well, there's a familiar sight, Pa in the same old chair.
Familiar faces. Now it gets interesting.

News and current affairs

Isolationism is a familiar refrain in US foreign policy among those elements of the right that consider the US too good for the world, as well as among those on the left who consider America a destructive global force.
The Bush administration promoted the premises of the Iraq war - Saddam Hussein's non-existent weapons of mass destruction -in the familiar colorful, fast-paced, and graphics-heavy style of television advertising.
These were judgments made by economists who were familiar with our business leadership - their inspirations, beliefs, subterfuges, and rationalizations.
Like his own body, Arafat's familiar world was steadily fading away with irreversible loss of control.
Under the existing regime, the country had been on a rapid downward spiral of the kind that has now become familiar in Greece and elsewhere in Europe.
This is not a problem with which Keynes was familiar, much less one that he sought to address.
At the same time, the fact that police agents must intervene in places with which they are not familiar severely impedes their effectiveness.
Siapapun yang familiar dengan proses ilmiah pasti paham bahwa peneliti dididik untuk tidak bersepakat atau menentang hipotesa dan kesimpulan orang lain.
But anyone who is even vaguely familiar with the US approach to multilateral lending knows that no other country has been as adept at exploiting its power and leverage for strategic gain.
The role of victim is all too familiar to the Chinese, perhaps even somewhat comforting, for it provides a way to explain (and explain away) China's problems.
This recalls a familiar historical pattern.
For many Americans, the election demonstrated what is best about the country, only to be followed by the sadly familiar process of knocking heroes off their pedestals.
Otherwise, disputes about fulfillment of this or that provision will lead the entire process back into the familiar quicksand of Middle East futility.
The protectionist responses are sadly familiar: protests against foreign workers, demands for trade protection, and a financial nationalism that seeks to limit the flow of money across national frontiers.
The hallmarks of this narrative are familiar to anyone who has studied the transmission of certain story categories in times of crisis.
Those events are too familiar to require re-hashing.
In retrospect, three successive British prime ministers - Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron - were on overly familiar terms with a manipulative business leader.
Indeed, in China, a now-familiar pattern is playing out yet again - another slowdown in domestic growth stemming from a crisis in the advanced economies of the West.
BANGKOK - The thunderous results of Thailand's general election on July 3 will seem familiar to anyone attuned to the political upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa.
But when tensions relax, the idea of taking up arms again becomes painful and unsupportable inasmuch as it means a return to the familiar and terrible experience of suffering.
The story of the BRICS is a familiar one.
Selective memory is a defense mechanism with which we are all familiar.
They will become familiar with the technology and learn how to maintain consistent quality in the production line.
Put aside the familiar arguments - that the science is clear, that climate change represents an indisputable existential threat to the planet, and that every day we do not act the problem grows worse.
The authorities' response follows a now-familiar pattern: high-profile pronouncements in the wake of workplace disaster give way to neglect of basic safety standards.

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