| 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 |
| famine | (noun) a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death | - |
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| (noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, shortage |
| famishment | (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: starvation |
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