| fame | (noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: celebrity, renown |
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| (noun) favorable public reputation | - |
| famed | (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
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| familial | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of a family | - |
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| (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
| familiar | (adjective) well known or easily recognized | - |
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| (adjective) within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange | - |
| (adjective) having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship | Synonyms: intimate |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: conversant |
| (noun) a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard | Synonyms: familiar spirit |
| (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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| familiarise | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarize |
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| familiarised | (adjective) having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment | Synonyms: adjusted, familiarized |
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| familiarising | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarizing |
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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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| familiarize | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarise |
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| familiarized | (adjective) having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment | Synonyms: adjusted, familiarised |
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| familiarizing | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarising |
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| familiarly | (adverb) in an intimately familiar manner | - |
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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 |
| famish | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: hunger, starve |
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| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: starve |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: starve |
| famished | (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: esurient, ravenous, sharp-set, starved |
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| famishment | (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: starvation |
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| famotidine | (noun) a histamine blocker (trade name Pepcid) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux | Synonyms: Pepcid |
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| famous | (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
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| famously | (adverb) in a manner or to an extent that is well known | - |
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| (adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: excellently, magnificently, splendidly |
| famulus | (noun) a close attendant (as to a scholar) | - |
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