FAMILIARLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does familiarly mean? 

• FAMILIARLY (adverb)
  The adverb FAMILIARLY has 1 sense:

1. in an intimately familiar manner

  Familiarity information: FAMILIARLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILIARLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an intimately familiar manner

Context example:

Sid, as he was familiarly known by his friends, was one of the most respected and devoted members of the socialist minority group

Pertainym:

familiar (having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship)

 Context examples 

We called each other familiarly by the name of cousin.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He glanced at the Police Gazette illustration and nodded his head at it familiarly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I am so glad to meet you; said Miss Steele, taking her familiarly by the arm—for I wanted to see you of all things in the world.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

With these rooms I might now have been familiarly acquainted!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Hiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior: and to live familiarly with inferiors is degrading.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She inquired into Charlotte's domestic concerns familiarly and minutely, gave her a great deal of advice as to the management of them all; told her how everything ought to be regulated in so small a family as hers, and instructed her as to the care of her cows and her poultry.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She perceived him soon afterwards looking at herself, and speaking familiarly to her brother; and had just determined to find out his name from the latter, when they both came towards her, and Mr. Dashwood introduced him to her as Mr. Robert Ferrars.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)