FAMILIARISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does familiarise mean? 

• FAMILIARISE (verb)
  The verb FAMILIARISE has 1 sense:

1. make familiar or conversant with

  Familiarity information: FAMILIARISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILIARISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they familiarise    ... he / she / it familiarises   
Past simple: familiarised   
Past participle: familiarised   
-ing form: familiarising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make familiar or conversant with

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

acquaint; familiarise; familiarize

Context example:

We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings

Hypernyms (to "familiarise" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Verb group:

acquaint; introduce; present (cause to come to know personally)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "familiarise"):

orient (familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances)

verse (familiarize through thorough study or experience)

get into (familiarize oneself thoroughly with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody with something

Derivation:

familiarisation (the experience of becoming familiar with something)

 Context examples 

The news was universally a surprize wherever it spread; and Mr. Weston had his five minutes share of it; but five minutes were enough to familiarise the idea to his quickness of mind.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I ought to have familiarised the old De Lacey to me, and by degrees to have discovered myself to the rest of his family, when they should have been prepared for my approach.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Afterwards, when familiarised with the visions of enjoyment so suddenly opened, she could speak more largely to William and Edmund of what she felt; but still there were emotions of tenderness that could not be clothed in words.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)