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View synonyms for furniture

furniture

[ fur-ni-cher ]

noun

  1. the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.
  2. fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something.
  3. equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins.
  4. Also called bearer,. Printing. pieces of wood or metal, less than type high, set in and about pages of type to fill them out and hold the type in place in a chase.


furniture

/ ˈfɜːnɪtʃə /

noun

  1. the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  2. the equipment necessary for a ship, factory, etc
  3. printing lengths of wood, plastic, or metal, used in assembling formes to create the blank areas and to surround the type
  4. the wooden parts of a rifle
  5. obsolete.
    the full armour, trappings, etc, for a man and horse
  6. the attitudes or characteristics that are typical of a person or thing

    the furniture of the murderer's mind

  7. part of the furniture informal.
    part of the furniture someone or something that is so long established in an environment as to be accepted as an integral part of it

    he has been here so long that he is part of the furniture



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Other Words From

  • fur·ni·ture·less adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of furniture1

1520–30; < French fourniture, derivative of fournir to furnish

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Word History and Origins

Origin of furniture1

C16: from French fourniture , from fournir to equip, furnish

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Example Sentences

Many hold classes in their living rooms, asking students to help re-arrange and then later put back furniture.

The carpeting is worn, the furniture is falling apart, and the electricity is out for most of the day.

They were carpenters making chairs, beds and other rudimentary pieces of furniture for the locals.

The charisma and brand of the artist itself becomes a kind of furniture.

Residents had placed makeshift roadblocks, including wooden beams and furniture, on roads leading to the protest.

Then, with one accord, they all rose and began to steer their way around the furniture toward the hall, Goliath following.

She opened the door of a square room with large roses on the white wall-paper, and fine old mahogany furniture.

The plain furniture was stiffly arranged, and there was no litter of clothing or small feminine belongings.

"I'd have been in a pretty fix if he had finished my house, and I had tried to move my furniture into it," he muttered.

It has been stated that many articles of furniture, &c., made by him are still in use.

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