familiar
adjective/fəˈmɪliər/
Слово англійською: familiar
Переклад familiar українською: знайомий
Детальний опис
- well known to you; often seen or heard and therefore easy to recognize
- to look/sound/seem familiar
- I couldn’t see any familiar faces in the room.
- He's a familiar figure in the neighbourhood.
- Then she heard a familiar voice.
- The cast contains a number of familiar names.
- The song was vaguely familiar.
- familiar to somebody The smell is very familiar to everyone who lives near a bakery.
- Violent attacks are becoming all too familiar (= sadly familiar).
- familiar with something knowing something very well
- an area with which I had been familiar since childhood
- You will soon become familiar with the different activities.
- Are you familiar with the computer software they use?
- She would have been familiar with the work of this 18th-century German philosopher.
- Ishii is clearly intimately familiar with his script and characters.
- (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.
- familiar with somebody He was being overly familiar with Gloria.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘intimate’, ‘on a family footing’): from Old French familier, from Latin familiaris, from familia ‘household servants, family’, from famulus ‘servant’.