Familiarise

Definitions: Familiarise

Familiarise

Verb

1. Make familiar or acquainted; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings".

2. Make familiar or acquainted with; "Familiarize yourself with the facilities here".

Date "familiarise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Language	To make (a person) well acquainted or conversant with something. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Familiarise

Synonyms: acquaint (v), familiarize (v). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: familiarised (language), familiarising.

Crosswords: Familiarise

Non-English Usage: "Familiarise" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (familiarizes).

"Familiarise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 86.59% of the time. "Familiarise" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	86.59%	71	39,674
Lexical Verb (base form)	13.41%	11	106,044
Total	100.00%	82	N/A

Language		Translations for "familiarise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		熟悉 (Abreast, Acquaint, Acquainting, Familiar, familiarisation, familiarised, familiarising, Familiarities, Familiarity, Familiarization, Familiarize, Familiarized, Familiarizing, knowingly). (various references)

Danish		gøre offentligheden fortrolig med den fælles valuta (to familiarise the general public with the single currency). (various references)

Dutch		het grote publiek met de Europese munteenheid vertrouwd maken (to familiarise the general public with the single currency). (various references)

Finnish		ecun tunnetuksi tekeminen suuren yleisön keskuudessa (to familiarise the general public with the single currency). (various references)

French		familiariser avec/se (familiarize). (various references)

German		die breite Öffentlichkeit mit der gemeinsamen Währung vertraut machen (to familiarise the general public with the single currency). (various references)

Greek		εξοικειώνω (accustom, accustome to, acquaint with, familiarize). (various references)

Italian		familiarizzare (familiarisation, familiarization, familiarize, make friends). (various references)

Korean		익숙하게 하십시�" (Accustom, Familiarize). (various references)

Pig Latin		amiliarisefay.(various references)

Portuguese		familiarização dos cidadãos em geral com o ecu (to familiarise the general public with the single currency). (various references)

Spanish		familiarización del público con la moneda única (to familiarise the general public with the single currency). (various references)

Swedish		vänja allmänheten vid den gemensamma valutan (to familiarise the general public with the single currency). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "familiarise": familiarised, familiarises. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-i-i-i-l-m-r-s"
	-2 letters: familiars, miliarias.
	-3 letters: airmails, familiar, families, filariae, flimsier, miliaria, ramifies, ramilies.
	-4 letters: aerials, airmail, fairies, filaria, filmers, filmier, flamers, flamier, mailers, malaise, milreis, misfile, misfire, ramilie, realism, refilms, remails, similar, slimier.
	-5 letters: aaliis, aerial, aflame, aimers, alarms, ariels, armies, emails, falser, falsie, farles, ferial, ferias, fermis, filers, filmer, flairs, flamer, flames, flares, fleams, fliers, frails, fraise, frames, lamiae, lamias, liaise, lifers, limier, mafias, mailer, mailes, malars, mesial, milers, mislie, ramies, realia, realms, refilm, remail, resail, rifles, safari, sailer, salami, samiel, serail, serial, simile, smiler.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-i-i-i-l-m-r-s"
	+1 letter: familiarised, familiarises, familiarizes.
	+2 letters: familiarities.
	+4 letters: unfamiliarities.
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