familiar

Adjective

• having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship
  • on familiar terms
    
  • pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders
    

• (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly
  • conversant with business trends
    
  • familiar with the complex machinery
    
  • he was familiar with those roads
    

• within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange
  • familiar ordinary objects found in every home
    
  • a familiar everyday scene
    
  • a familiar excuse
    
  • a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences
    

• well known or easily recognized
  • a familiar figure
    
  • familiar songs
    
  • familiar guests
    

Noun

• a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard

• a friend who is frequently in the company of another
  • drinking companions
    
  • comrades in arms
    

• a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  intimate , conversant(p) , familiar(p) , familiar spirit , companion , comrade , fellow , associate
• Antonyms: 
  strange , unusual , unfamiliar