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familiarise

familiarise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of familiarize.

Meaning of familiarize

Verb

familiarize (third-person singular simple present familiarizes, present participle familiarizing, simple past and past participle familiarized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, ambitransitive) To make or become familiar with something or someone.
    • I took some time to familiarize myself with the layout of her kitchen before I got to cooking for her.

Forms of familiarise

third-person singular presentfamiliarises
present participlefamiliarising
past participlefamiliarised
pastfamiliarised

Origin of familiarise

From familiar + -ise.

Words formed from familiarise

Questions about familiarise

What is familiarise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Familiarise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of familiarize.

Words near familiarise in the dictionary

  1. familiar frauds
  2. familiar stranger
  3. familiar strangers
  4. familiarisation
  5. familiarisations
  6. familiarise
  7. familiarised
  8. familiariser
  9. familiarisers
  10. familiarises
  11. familiarising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: familiarise (page history and authors); familiarize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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