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Homespun vs Familiar - What's the difference?

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Homespun is a related term of familiar.


As adjectives the difference between homespun and familiar

is that homespun is (of yarn) spun in the home while familiar is familial.

As a noun homespun

is fabric made from homespun yarn.

homespun

English

Adjective

  • (of yarn) Spun in the home.
  • (of fabric) Woven in the home.
  • (of clothing etc) Made from homespun fabric.
  • * Washington Irving
    • homespun country garbs
  • (by extension) Plain and homely; unsophisticated and unpretentious.
  • * Dryden
    • our homespun English proverb
  • * Addison
    • our homespun authors
  • * (seeCites)

    • Noun

  • Fabric made from homespun yarn.
  • * (seeCites)
  • (obsolete) An unpolished, rustic person. Example: "What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here?" - Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream Act III Scene I
  • * (seeCites)

    • See also

    * homegrown * roughspun

    familiar

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Known to one.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
  • Acquainted.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
  • Intimate or friendly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar.
  • Inappropriately intimate or friendly.
    • (Camden)
  • Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
  • * Byron
    • familiar feuds

    Synonyms

    * (acquainted) acquainted * close, friendly, intimate, personal * (inappropriately intimate or friendly) cheeky, fresh, impudent

    Antonyms

    * (known to one) unfamiliar, unknown * (acquainted) unacquainted * (intimate) cold, cool, distant, impersonal, standoffish, unfriendly

    Derived terms

    * overfamiliar * familiarity * familiarly

    Related terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A member of one's family or household.
  • (obsolete) A close friend.
  • *, II.i.4.2:
    • a friend of mine, that finding a receipt in Brassavola, would needs take hellebore in substance, and try it on his own person; but had not some of his familiars come to visit him by chance, he had by his indiscretion hazarded himself; many such I have observed.
  • An attendant spirit, often in animal form.
    • The witch’s familiar was a black cat.

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