furniture
Americannoun
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the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.
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fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something.
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equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins.
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Also called bearer. Also called dead metal. 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.
noun
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the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
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the equipment necessary for a ship, factory, etc
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printing lengths of wood, plastic, or metal, used in assembling formes to create the blank areas and to surround the type
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the wooden parts of a rifle
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obsolete the full armour, trappings, etc, for a man and horse
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the attitudes or characteristics that are typical of a person or thing
the furniture of the murderer's mind
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informal 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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Origin of furniture
1520–30; < French fourniture, derivative of fournir to furnish
Explanation
The chairs, tables, sofas, and beds in your house are furniture. Your furniture gives you somewhere to sit, store your books, and a comfortable place to sleep at night. Furniture can be defined as the things in your house that you can move around — you can rearrange the furniture in your living room to make room for a piano, for example. Humans have been building and using some form of furniture for thousands of years. Furniture comes from the Middle French fourniture, "a supply," or "an act of furnishing."
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The furniture company said Thursday it now expects sales of $700 million to $740 million for the year, cutting the high end of its outlook by $10 million.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
The diminishing impact of the tariffs is apparent in softer prices for goods — furniture, appliances, new cars and whatnot.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
“Increased home sales mean more economic activity—lawn care, furniture purchases, moving services, mortgage originations and other related business activities all get a boost,” National Association of Realtors chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
While the ad for the in-universe furniture store Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire plays, a phone number with a South Bay area code flashes in a supertitle.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
He made a circuit of the room, peeking into corners and behind the furniture.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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