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FAMILIARISED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does familiarised mean?
• FAMILIARISED (adjective)
The adjective FAMILIARISED has 1 sense:
1. having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment
Familiarity information: FAMILIARISED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment
Synonyms:
adjusted; familiarised; familiarized
Similar:
orientated; oriented (adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
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)
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