familiar | (noun) a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard | Synonyms: familiar spirit |
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(noun) a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support | - |
(noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, companion, comrade, fellow |
familiarisation | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarization |
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familiarity | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: impropriety, indecorum, liberty |
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(noun) usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known | - |
(noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: closeness, intimacy |
(noun) a casual manner | Synonyms: casualness |
(noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, conversancy |
familiarization | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarisation |
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family | (noun) primary social group; parents and children | Synonyms: family unit |
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(noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
(noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: home, house, household, menage |
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera | - |
(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: category, class |
(noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | Synonyms: fellowship |
(noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, mob, syndicate |
(noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: kin, kinsperson |
kamilavka | (noun) A headdress worn among Orthodox Christian monastics and clergy. | - |
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mamilla | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mammilla, nipple, pap, teat, tit |
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materfamilias | (noun) a female head of a family or tribe | Synonyms: matriarch |
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overfamiliarity | (noun) The state of being common or repeated to the point of being unnoticed or annoying. | - |
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paramilitary | (noun) a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) | Synonyms: paramilitary force, paramilitary organisation, paramilitary organization, paramilitary unit |
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paterfamilias | (noun) the male head of family or tribe | Synonyms: patriarch |
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subfamily | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic category below a family | - |
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superfamily | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group ranking below an order but above a family | - |
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unfamiliarity | (noun) unusualness as a consequence of not being well known | Synonyms: strangeness |
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verapamil | (noun) a drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine | Synonyms: Calan, Isoptin |
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