word-vault/dist/data/cards/fa/familiar.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "familiar",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "well known to you; often seen or heard and therefore easy to recognize",
            "sensetop": "familiar to somebody",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **look/sound/seem familiar**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I couldn’t see any **familiar faces** in the room."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a familiar figure in the neighbourhood."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Then she heard a **familiar voice**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cast contains a number of **familiar names**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The song was **vaguely familiar**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The smell is very familiar to everyone who lives near a bakery.",
                    "contextForm": "familiar to somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Violent attacks are becoming **all too familiar** *(= sadly familiar)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her face looked strangely familiar."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His face looked awfully familiar."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His face was instantly familiar, even after all those years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The name sounded vaguely familiar to her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The place felt faintly familiar to me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The report's conclusions were already familiar enough to the government."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The room looked distinctly familiar."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a name that was somehow familiar"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a situation which has become all too familiar to most teachers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company's brand has become a familiar sight."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "knowing something very well",
            "sensetop": "familiar with something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an area with which I had been familiar since childhood"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You will soon **become familiar** with the different activities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are you familiar with the computer software they use?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She would have been familiar with the work of this 18th-century German philosopher."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ishii is clearly **intimately familiar** with his script and characters."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You will need to be thoroughly familiar with our procedures."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm not overly familiar with these issues."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was now getting much more familiar with the local area."
                },
                {
                    "text": "By now you will be familiar with the one-way system in the centre of town."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "very informal, sometimes in a way that is unpleasant",
            "sensetop": "familiar with somebody",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You seem to be on very familiar terms with your tutor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "After a few drinks her boss started getting too familiar for her liking."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was being overly familiar with Gloria.",
                    "contextForm": "familiar with somebody"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈmɪliə(r)/",
                "audio": "fa/familiar/familiar__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈmɪliər/",
                "audio": "fa/familiar/familiar__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘intimate’, ‘on a family footing’): from Old French familier, from Latin familiaris, from familia ‘household servants, family’, from famulus ‘servant’."
}