furniture

[ fur-ni-cher ]

/ ˈfɜr nɪ tʃər /

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noun

the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.

fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something.

equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins.

Also called bearer, 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.

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Origin of furniture

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

OTHER WORDS FROM furniture

fur·ni·ture·less, adjective

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How to use furniture in a sentence

From one they took his best horses, from another they took linen, clothes, and other furnitures and victual.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
But they have no Magazines in Silesia, no Siege-furnitures; and the season is far spent.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
In our home, furnitures and even the manner of maids hair-dressing were all in genuine Japanese style.
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1|Elizabeth Bisland
And all those furnitures were appoynted to be geuen to him that should do best that day.
The Palace of Pleasure|William Painter

Who replied that without Money and other furnitures, he could not conueniently execute hys commaundement.
The Palace of Pleasure|William Painter

British Dictionary definitions for furniture

furniture

/ (ˈfɜːnɪtʃə) /

noun

the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc

the equipment necessary for a ship, factory, etc

printing lengths of wood, plastic, or metal, used in assembling formes to create the blank areas and to surround the type

the wooden parts of a rifle

obsolete the full armour, trappings, etc, for a man and horse

the attitudes or characteristics that are typical of a person or thingthe furniture of the murderer's mind

part of the furniture informal someone or something that is so long established in an environment as to be accepted as an integral part of ithe has been here so long that he is part of the furniture

See door furniture, street furniture

Word Origin for furniture

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

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