familiar
n.n. easy to recognize because you have seen, heard, or experienced it before. It describes something you know well enough to feel comfortable with.
n. well-known from previous experience or encounter; easily recognized. Often used to describe a sense of recognition that lacks specific detail.
Her face looks familiar, but I cannot remember her name.
The smell of fresh coffee was a familiar comfort as he walked into his childhood home.
The author uses a familiar narrative structure to ground the reader before introducing more experimental and challenging themes in the later chapters.
From Middle English familiar, familier, from Latin familiāris (“pertaining to servants; pertaining to the household”). By surface analysis, family + -ar. Piecewise doublet of familial. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþ.
Commonly takes the preposition 'with' when describing a person's knowledge ('familiar with the rules') or 'to' when describing the thing being recognized ('the song was familiar to me').
I am familiar to this city.I am familiar with this city.Use 'familiar with' when the subject is the person who has the knowledge.