Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - familiarize

(familiarizes, familiarizing, familiarized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'familiarise' If you familiarize yourself with something, or if someone familiarizes you with it, you learn about it and start to understand it. I was expected to familiarise myself with the keyboard... The goal of the experiment was to familiarize the people with the new laws. VERB: V pron-refl with n, V n with n FAMILIARLY If you say that something or someone is familiarly known as a particular thing or familiarly called a particular thing, you are giving the name that people use informally to refer to it. ...Ann Hamilton’s father, familiarly known as ‘Dink’. PHRASE