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She has an American accent.
NGSL Rank: 1442
familiar
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Meanings
adjective
- well known from long or close association.E.g. their faces will be familiar to many of you
- in close friendship; intimate.E.g. she had not realized they were on such familiar terms
noun
- a demon supposedly attending and obeying a witch, often said to assume the form of an animal.E.g. 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.
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