Familiar

Definition

familiar / fǝ'mÇliǝ(r) / adj ၁။ ~ ( to sb ) သိကြၽမ္းေသာ။ အသိမ်ားေသာ။ အကြၽမ္းဝင္ေသာ။ က်က္မိေသာ။ ရင္းႏီွးေသာ။ familiar faces/surroundings/images/themes ❍ facts that are familiar to every schoolboy ❍ There was something vaguely familiar about him. ❍ Such accounts of environmental pollution are now depressingly familiar. ၂။ ~ with sth ေကာင္းေကာင္းကြၽမ္း [ေသာ]။ အကြၽမ္း တဝင္ ရိွ [ေသာ]။ facts with which every schoolboy is familiar ❍ By now you will be familiar with the layout of the house. ၃။ ~ ( with sb ) အေရာဝင္ေသာ။ ရင္းႏီွးေသာ။ သိကြၽမ္းေသာ။ You seem to be on very familiar terms with your bank manager. ❍ ( derog ) The children are too familiar with their teacher. See also FREE ၉ ❏ familiarly adv တရင္းတႏီွး။ ရင္းရင္းႏီွးႏီွး။ William, familiarly known as Billy.

Examples

1. People are more relaxed in familiar surroundings.
2. [familiar to] : The name Harry Potter will be familiar to many readers.
3. [vaguely familiar] : His face looked vaguely familiar but I couldn’t think why.
4. [a familiar face/figure/voice etc] : I’m pleased to see so many familiar faces here tonight.
5. Horse-drawn carts used to be a familiar sight.
6. [all-too familiar] : An all-too familiar problem
7. [horribly/painfully/depressingly familiar] : These stories of bureaucratic mistakes are depressingly familiar.
8. [familiar with] : Don’t be too familiar with the customers.
9. [be on familiar terms with someone] : She seems to be on very familiar terms with the waiter.