furniture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle French fourniture (“a supply, or the act of furnishing”), from fournir (“to furnish”).
Inflected forms:
form: furnitures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The woman does not even have one stick of furniture moved in yet.
How much furniture did they leave behind?
A chair is furniture. Sofas are also furniture.
They bought a couple of pieces of furniture.
Your furniture is beautiful.
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 […]
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.
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,[…].
gloss: The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
Amongst the rich this part of a hawk's furniture is ornamented with embroidery, handsome silver aigrettes, tassels and other decorations.
Horse furniture included a white sheepskin with red ‘wolf's teeth’; blue shabraque with yellow edging and royal cypher; blue valise with yellow edging.
gloss: Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: […]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.
gloss: An accompanying enhancing feature, or features collectively; embellishment, decoration, trimming.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: The stock and forearm of a weapon.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
gloss: The stumps.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: It read: “This article was amended on 3 January 2023. The original furniture said the fireworks display was on Christmas Eve.”
gloss: A type of mixture organ stop.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Draped coverings and hangings; bedsheets, tablecloths, tapestries, etc.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
gloss: Clothing with which a person is furnished; apparel, outfit.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: Arms and armor, equipment of war.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: Equipment for work, apparatus, tools, instruments.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
gloss: Condiments of a salad.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: Stock, supply, stores, provisions.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: Contents; that with which something is filled or stocked.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: Impressive-looking books used for filling out the collection of a private library.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The action of furnishing or supplying.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: The condition of being equipped, prepared, or mentally cultivated.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
Synonyms: furniture
furnishings
Related words: furnish
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Derived words: 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
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