familiar

adjective

• 1well known from long or close association:their faces will be familiar to many of you a familiar voice
• often encountered or experienced; common:the situation was all too familiar
• (familiar with) having a good knowledge of:ensure that you are familiar with the heating controls

• 2in close friendship; intimate:she had not realized they were on such familiar terms
• informal or intimate to an inappropriate degree: he was being overly familiar with Gloria

noun

• 1 (also familiar spirit) 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

• 2a close friend or associate.

• 3(in the Roman Catholic Church) a person rendering certain services in a pope’s or bishop’s household.