familiar

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Easy to recognize because you have seen, heard, or known it before.

   That tune sounds familiar to me.

2. 2
   adj

   Having good knowledge of something.

   I'm quite familiar with this computer system.

3. 3
   adj

   Friendly and informal, sometimes too much so.

   He was on familiar terms with all the staff.

Common collocations

• familiar face Adjective + noun

From Middle English familiar, familier, from Latin familiāris (“pertaining to servants; pertaining to the household”). By surface analysis, family + -ar. Piecewise doublet of familial. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþ.

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