Word Finder - familiar

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An attendant spirit, often in animal or demon form.

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The witch’s familiar was a black cat.

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A member of one's family or household.

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A member of a pope's or bishop's household.

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A close friend.

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The officer of the Inquisition who arrested suspected people.

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Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.

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there’s a familiar face; that tune sounds familiar

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Acquainted.

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I'm quite familiar with this system; she's not familiar with manual gears

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Intimate or friendly.

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we are not on familiar terms; our neighbour is not familiar

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Inappropriately intimate or friendly.

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Don’t be familiar with me, boy!

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Of or pertaining to a family; familial.

The name wasn't familiar to me.

The familiar light appeared.

The familiar voice was carried on the wind.

His gaze wandered over her face in that familiar way.

I stood amidst the familiar instruments, wondering where to begin.

Unlike me, Betsy was very familiar with the house having spent much time with Martha and Claire.

Pierre had long been familiar with that story.

There was something familiar about that face, yet she was certain she had never met him before.

The scene was so familiar; abduction, outlined by Betsy, facts presented, Quinn and Howie removing to their basement sanctuary while we waited and Martha recorded.

There followed the familiar tossing and turning, telling me the dreams had begun.

Bumpus jumped from his nap at the sound of the familiar word.

Fortunately, Howie was familiar with Chicago.

He shifted, a familiar fire in his blood.

Familiar coldness and silence washed over her before the quiet was replaced by the storm's furious bellow.

When the ponds were firmly frozen, they afforded not only new and shorter routes to many points, but new views from their surfaces of the familiar landscape around them.

Dread filled her as she drove up the familiar driveway to the stone manor.

Coldness seeped through her as she watched the familiar scene before her.

The corporal and soldiers were in marching kit with knapsacks and shakos that had metal straps, and these changed their familiar faces.

She breathed in his familiar scent.

They were so familiar that at length one alighted on an armful of wood which I was carrying in, and pecked at the sticks without fear.

His gaze traveled over her face in that familiar way, his expression reflective.

At long last, she heard a familiar voice.

We assumed our now familiar positions with Howie changed into pajamas and robe.

She winced as he snatched her arm, and familiar coldness descended over her.

In the distance, she heard the familiar, unmistakable sound of an explosion.

Cassie glanced at the familiar figure and then gasped.

Now that's a familiar line.

The former and the latter were alike familiar and his own.

At first sight, Pfuel, in his ill-made uniform of a Russian general, which fitted him badly like a fancy costume, seemed familiar to Prince Andrew, though he saw him now for the first time.

I'm interested in a young woman whose name will be familiar to you.

He held out a familiar dagger.

From the room in which Nicholas was sleeping came the sound of his even breathing, every slightest tone of which was familiar to his wife.

Then he drew back, his gaze running over her face in that familiar confident way.

Pierre tossed her a familiar cell phone as they entered the mansion.

He felt the familiar sense of desire rise just looking at her plump lips and bright blue eyes.

The first mechanism is the creation of things, an old and familiar approach.

Another friend, who is as familiar with French as with English, finds her French much more intelligible than her English.

We showed his picture around but the best answer was he looked familiar.

It was familiar to her, but too much a part of him to heal.

A familiar sense of calm filled her.

It has a familiar ring, doesn't it?

The familiar words in her thoughts were chanted in a voice that wasn't hers.

Darian opened his eyes and looked around, surprised to find the location familiar.

Jenn looked up as a familiar vamp materialized in the kitchen.

He rose, distressed by the familiar despair.

The striking personal appearance of Fox has been rendered very familiar by portraits and by innumerable caricatures.

Through all this runs the train of thought resulting naturally from Bruno's fundamental principles, and familiar in modern philosophy as Spinozism, the denial of particular providence, the doctrine of the uselessness of prayer, the identification in a sense of liberty and necessity, and the peculiar definition of good and evil.

The mocking-bird is moreover of familiar habits, haunting the neighbourhood of houses, and is therefore a general favourite.

The framework of the governments established in 1836-37 and 1845 was not essentially different from those with which the framers were familiar in the United States.

Every one who has visited India is familiar with the pretty little striped palm-squirrel, which is to a considerable extent a partially domesticated animal, or, rather, an animal which has taken to quarter itself in the immediate neighbourhood of human habitations.