Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a familiar manner; unceremoniously; without constraint or formality; with the ease and unconcern that arise from long custom or acquaintance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a familiar manner.

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  • adverb In a familiar manner

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an intimately familiar manner

Etymologies

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familiar +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • In the first place, most of the students were seated; for, in a task of pure composition, there was no occasion either for standing or for "prowling," -- the term familiarly applied to the sometimes disastrous backward and forward movements of which mention has been made, and which ordinarily gave so much action to the scene.

    A Bookful of Girls Anna Fuller 1884

  • He says he was dismayed to hear that authorities were even able to get Ai Weiwei, whom he referred to familiarly as "Old Ai."

    China Investigates Detained Artist for Economic Crimes 2011

  • He says he was dismayed to hear that authorities were even able to get Ai Weiwei, whom he referred to familiarly as "Old Ai."

    China Investigates Detained Artist for Economic Crimes 2011

  • NATURAL HISTORY is the name familiarly applied to the study of the properties of such natural bodies as minerals, plants, and animals; the sciences which embody the knowledge man has acquired upon these subjects are commonly termed Natural Sciences, in contradistinction to other so-called “physical” sciences; and those who devote themselves especially to the pursuit of such sciences have been and are commonly termed

    Essays 2007

  • Melanie looked up like a good soldier awaiting a command and so tense was the situation it did not occur to her that for the first time Rhett was calling her familiarly by the name which only family and old friends used.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Melanie looked up like a good soldier awaiting a command and so tense was the situation it did not occur to her that for the first time Rhett was calling her familiarly by the name which only family and old friends used.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Melanie looked up like a good soldier awaiting a command and so tense was the situation it did not occur to her that for the first time Rhett was calling her familiarly by the name which only family and old friends used.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Melanie looked up like a good soldier awaiting a command and so tense was the situation it did not occur to her that for the first time Rhett was calling her familiarly by the name which only family and old friends used.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Melanie looked up like a good soldier awaiting a command and so tense was the situation it did not occur to her that for the first time Rhett was calling her familiarly by the name which only family and old friends used.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Each member of the party I have called by the name familiarly used on the expedition, for naturally there was no "Mistering" on a trip of this kind.

    A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

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