furniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜːnɪtʃə/
ipa: /ˈfɝnɪt͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: furnitures
Etymology: From Middle French fourniture (“a supply, or the act of furnishing”), from fournir (“to furnish”).
Senses: examples: text: The woman does not even have one stick of furniture moved in yet.
text: How much furniture did they leave behind?
text: A chair is furniture. Sofas are also furniture.
text: They bought a couple of pieces of furniture.
text: Your furniture is beautiful.
text: Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 377, column 2:
text: She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
text: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
examples: text: We commend a horse because he is strong and nimble,[…]and not for his furniture: a greyhound for his swiftnesse, not for his collar: a hawke for her wing, not for her cranes or bells.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Amongst the rich this part of a hawk's furniture is ornamented with embroidery, handsome silver aigrettes, tassels and other decorations.
ref: 1934, George Cameron Stone, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor, →ISBN:
text: Horse furniture included a white sheepskin with red ‘wolf's teeth’; blue shabraque with yellow edging and royal cypher; blue valise with yellow edging.
ref: 2002, Ronald Pawly, Wellington's Dutch Allies 1815, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
examples: text: […]a new universal pistol, one to be carried by each man, with a 9-inch barrel of musket-bore and an iron ramrod carried in the holster; the furniture was reduced to just a brass trigger guard (no butt-plate), and some were fitted with Nock's lock.
ref: 1994, Philip Haythornthwaite, British Cavalryman 1792-1815, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
examples: text: A Scythian Shepherd, so imbelliſhed
With Natures pride, and richeſt furniture?
His looks do menace heauen & dare the Gods,
His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: An accompanying enhancing feature, or features collectively; embellishment, decoration, trimming.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The stock and forearm of a weapon.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The pieces of wood or metal put around pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The stumps.
examples: text: It read: “This article was amended on 3 January 2023. The original furniture said the fireworks display was on Christmas Eve.”
ref: 2023 January 31, Elisabeth Ribbans, “The perils of using journalist jargon outside the newsroom”, in The Guardian:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: Any material on the page other than the body text and pictures of articles; for example, headlines, datelines and dinkuses, lines and symbols (though in earlier use, only non-text elements of page design, such as lines and symbols).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of mixture organ stop.
glosses: Draped coverings and hangings; bedsheets, tablecloths, tapestries, etc.
glosses: Clothing with which a person is furnished; apparel, outfit.
glosses: Arms and armor, equipment of war.
glosses: Equipment for work, apparatus, tools, instruments.
glosses: Condiments of a salad.
glosses: Stock, supply, stores, provisions.
glosses: Contents; that with which something is filled or stocked.
glosses: Impressive-looking books used for filling out the collection of a private library.
glosses: The action of furnishing or supplying.
glosses: The condition of being equipped, prepared, or mentally cultivated.
Synonyms: word: furniture
word: furnishings
Hypernyms: word: artifact
Hyponyms: word: chair
word: stool
word: sofa
word: table
word: bed
word: wardrobe
word: chest of drawers
word: bookcase
word: cupboard
word: curtain
word: carpet
Meronyms: drawer
wardrobe
Derived terms: angels moving the furniture
disfurniture
federation furniture
furniture beetle
furnitureless
furnituremaker
furnituremaking
furniture music
furniture polish
furniture poverty
furniturized
gun furniture
move furniture
nomadic furniture
occasional furniture
part of the furniture
piece of furniture
pistol furniture
road furniture
save the furniture
stick of furniture
street furniture
traffic furniture
unfurnitured
urban furniture
utility furniture
Related terms: word: furnish
word: :Category:Furniture