familiar
US: /fəˈmɪɫjɝ/
UK: /fəmˈɪliə/
UK: /fəmˈɪliə/
English Vietnamese dictionary
familiar /fə'miljə/
- tính từ
- thuộc gia đình
- thân thuộc, thân; quen thuộc, quen (với một vấn đề)
- thông thường
- không khách khí; sỗ sàng, suồng sã, lả lơi
- (+ with) là tình nhân của, ăn mằm với
- danh từ
- bạn thân, người thân cận, người quen thuộc
- người hầu (trong nhà giáo hoàng)
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective
1 ~ (to sb) well known to you; often seen or heard and therefore easy to recognize: to look / sound / taste familiar + He's a familiar figure in the neighbourhood. + The smell is very familiar to everyone who lives near a bakery. + Something about her voice was vaguely familiar. + Violent attacks are becoming all too familiar (= sadly familiar). + I couldn't see any familiar faces in the room.
Antonym: UNFAMILIAR
2 ~ with sth knowing sth very well: an area with which I had been familiar since childhood + By now you will be familiar with the one-way system in the centre of town. + Are you familiar with the computer software they use?
Antonym: UNFAMILIAR
3 ~ (with sb) (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.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 well-known, common, commonplace, everyday, ordinary, current:
That's a familiar melody.
2 frequent, usual, customary, habitual, routine, traditional:
He strolled along his familiar route through the trees.
3 friendly, affable, close, intimate, sociable, social, free, free and easy, relaxed; over-friendly, overfree, overfamiliar, bold, forward, insolent, impudent, presumptuous, presuming, disrespectful, unreserved, unrestrained; informal, casual, cordial, unceremonious; Colloq chummy, Slang US and Canadian buddy-buddy, palsy-walsy:
She began to get entirely too familiar.
4 familiar with. aware or conscious or cognizant of, knowledgeable about or of or in, conversant or acquainted with, no stranger to, on speaking terms with, up on or in, (well-)versed in, informed of or about, privy to, in the know about, au courant, au fait:
Are you familiar with the latest theories in particle physics?
Collocation dictionary
1 well-known
VERBS
be, feel, look, seem, smell, sound
The place felt faintly familiar to me.
| become | make sth
ADV.
distinctly, very
The room looked distinctly familiar.
| entirely | increasingly | faintly, fairly, quite, rather, reasonably, slightly, vaguely | enough
The report's conclusions were already familiar enough to the government.
| already | immediately, instantly
His face was instantly familiar, even after all those years.
| somehow
a name that was somehow familiar
| curiously, disconcertingly, oddly, strangely
Her face looked strangely familiar.
| blessedly, comfortingly
The kitchen smelled warm and inviting and blessedly familiar.
| all too, depressingly, horribly, painfully, sickeningly
a situation which has become all too familiar to most teachers
PREP.
to
The name sounded vaguely familiar to her.
2 familiar with sth: having a good knowledge of sth
VERBS
be, seem | become, get, grow
I was now getting much more familiar with the local area.
ADV.
extremely, intimately, very | completely, fully, perfectly, thoroughly
You will need to be thoroughly familiar with our procedures.
| increasingly | fairly, pretty, quite, reasonably | already
Concise English dictionary
familiarsfə'mɪlɪə(r)
noun
+a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support
+a person who is frequently in the company of another
+a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
adj.
+well known or easily recognized
+within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange
+(usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly
+having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship
