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Familiar

adjective

1.

Well known or easily recognized. "Familiar songs" , "Familiar guests"

2.

Within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange. "A familiar everyday scene" , "A familiar excuse" , "A day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences"

3.

(usually followed by 'with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly. Synonym: conversant. "Familiar with the complex machinery" , "He was familiar with those roads"

4.

Having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship. Synonym: intimate. "Pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"

noun

1.

A person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support.

2.

A friend who is frequently in the company of another. Synonyms: associate, companion, comrade, fellow. "Comrades in arms"

3.

A spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard. Synonym: familiar spirit.

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... formed a companionship and a comradeship with death. For months they were accustomed to look daily down the long, long trail leading to the Great Divide. They left behind many who traveled the trail and went over the Divide. Peril was their constant attendant, danger so familiar that they ...

— History of the American Negro in the Great World War • W. Allison Sweeney

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— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5 • Robert Kerr

... silence, however—the agent, who was perfectly familiar with the way, leading. They soon emerged into the open country, and after a few miles began to ascend, and felt the keen air from the sea blow upon their faces—the path soon became rugged and uneven, but sloping towards the sea. In a short time they reached the beach. Here they dismounted and tied ...

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... is also one of the fixed and solid institutions of Poughkeepsie, located in the very heart of the city. It has accomplished good work in preparing young men for business, and has made Poughkeepsie a familiar word in every household throughout the land. It was fortunate for the city that the energetic founder of this college selected the central point of the Hudson as the place of all others most suited for his enterprise, and equally ...

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... Garfield, several by Guiteau, and one by Ballington Booth—the last representing a memory of the fact that he had been shot by a man named Booth, to whose surname the writer added the name with which he was most familiar in connection therewith. A request to name five of the States that seceded in 1861 received answers that included almost every State in the Union. It happened to be at the time of the silver agitation ...

— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

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