familiar
adjective
[ fəˈmɪlɪə ]
• well known from long or close association.
• "their faces will be familiar to many of you"
• in close friendship; intimate.
• "she had not realized they were on such familiar terms"
Similar:
close,
intimate,
dear,
near,
confidential,
bosom,
friendly,
neighbourly,
sociable,
amicable,
easy,
pally,
chummy,
matey,
buddy-buddy,
palsy-walsy,
thick,
thick as thieves,
familiar
noun
• a demon supposedly attending and obeying a witch, often said to assume the form of an animal.
• "her familiars were her two little griffons that nested in her skirts"
• a close friend or associate.
• (in the Roman Catholic Church) a person rendering certain services in a pope's or bishop's household.
Origin:
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’.
