Usually means: Well known, often encountered, recognizable.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word familiar:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. familiar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. familiar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. familiar: Collins English Dictionary
  4. familiar: Vocabulary.com
  5. Familiar, familiar: Wordnik
  6. familiar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. familiar: Wiktionary
  8. familiar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. familiar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. familiar: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Familiar, familiar: Dictionary.com
  12. familiar (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. familiar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Familiar (Liam Payne and J Balvin song), Familiar (The X-Files), Familiar (disambiguation), Familiar (play), Familiar (song), Familiar, The Familiar (film), The Familiar (novel), The Familiar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Familiar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. familiar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. familiar: Rhymezone
  18. familiar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. familiar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. familiar: Free Dictionary
  21. familiar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. familiar: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. familiar: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. familiar: Merriam-Webster.com
  25. Familiar: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. familiar: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. familiar: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. familiar: Idioms
  2. A Dictionary Of WitchCraft (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Familiar: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See familiarly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.
adjective:  Acquainted.
adjective:  Intimate or friendly.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
noun:  (witchcraft) An attendant spirit, often in animal or demon form.
noun:  (obsolete) A member of one's family or household.
noun:  A member of a pope's or bishop's household.
noun:  (obsolete) A close friend.
noun:  (historical) The officer of the Inquisition who arrested suspected people.

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