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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
familiarly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
know
▪ Standard, as it is familiarly known, has gone through a succession of lumber industry owners since its bustling origins.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The FBI is looking for Tom Charles, familiarly known as Charlie the Kid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ That might seem to be precisely the sort of querulous argument which the Left has familiarly been scorned for posing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Familiarly

Familiarly \Fa"mil"iar*ly\, adv. In a familiar manner.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
familiarly

late 14c., "commonly;" early 15c., "intimately;" from familiar + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
familiarly

adv. In a familiar manner

WordNet
familiarly

adv. in an intimately familiar manner; "Sid, as he was familiarly known by his friends, was one of the most respected and devoted members of the socialist minority group"

Usage examples of "familiarly".

He bowed politely to the baroness, familiarly to Danglars, and affectionately to Monte Cristo.

I could no longer resist the effect made upon my senses by this beautiful girl, who, at the break of day and scarcely dressed, ran gaily into my room, came to my bed enquiring how I had slept, bent familiarly her head towards me, and, so to speak, dropped her words on my lips.

Limousin and Duret, ofRosso and del Sarto, Cellini and Da Vinci, Primaticcio and Grolier rose familiarly to his lips.

Familiarly, these two characters were known as Louie the Grift and Side-face Sam and they represented what might have been termed in better circles a renaissance of the gangster epoch in American history.

The shoemaker, who spoke French, was talking the usual nonsense of dealers, when she interrupted him to ask the valet, who was standing familiarly in the room, what he wanted.

Even at this distance Kydd could see that the sailor was disdaining to cling on, instead balancing between the tiny footrope he stood on while leaning familiarly against the big spar.

Now in order to manifest the truth of the Resurrection, it sufficed for Him to appear several times before them, to speak familiarly to them, to eat and drink, and let them touch Him.

Dieter had given her something venereal, although her memory of that brothel in Kamathipura, and how familiarly Dieter had spoken with the madam, gave Nancy good reason to be worried.

Thirdly, the doctrine of a judicial metempsychosis was most profoundly rooted in the popular faith, as a strict verity, throughout the great East, ages before the time of Plato, and was familiarly known throughout Greece in his time.

The instant Repp Taylor recognized Cat and failed to recognize the half-naked man in swimming trunks with his arm curved so familiarly around her shoulders, he spurred his horse away from the other two and aimed it at the slope.

One of the waltzers, however, who was familiarly called Viscount, and whose low cut waistcoat seemed moulded to his chest, came a second time to ask Madame Bovary to dance, assuring her that he would guide her, and that she would get through it very well.

Even at this distance Kydd could see that the sailor was disdaining to cling on, instead balancing between the tiny footrope he stood on while leaning familiarly against the big spar.

At seventeen, he was forbidden by his oversolicitous father Jesse, familiarly known as the Ass of Bethlehem, to remain with his older brothers and fight the Philistines, though he had fought both the wolves and the lions which had harassed his flock.

I could no longer resist the effect made upon my senses by this beautiful girl, who, at the break of day and scarcely dressed, ran gaily into my room, came to my bed enquiring how I had slept, bent familiarly her head towards me, and, so to speak, dropped her words on my lips.

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.