furniture
Pronunciation: /ˈfɜː.nɪ.t͡ʃə/
The English word “furniture” has 19 meanings listed here.
noun
- Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
- The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
- Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
- An accompanying enhancing feature, or features collectively; embellishment, decoration, trimming.
- The stock and forearm of a weapon.
- 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.
- The stumps.
- 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).
- A type of mixture organ stop.
- Draped coverings and hangings; bedsheets, tablecloths, tapestries, etc.
- Clothing with which a person is furnished; apparel, outfit.
- Arms and armor, equipment of war.
- Equipment for work, apparatus, tools, instruments.
- Condiments of a salad.
- Stock, supply, stores, provisions.
- Contents; that with which something is filled or stocked.
- Impressive-looking books used for filling out the collection of a private library.
- The action of furnishing or supplying.
- The condition of being equipped, prepared, or mentally cultivated.
Etymology
From Middle French fourniture (“a supply, or the act of furnishing”), from fournir (“to furnish”).
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