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furniture

Pronunciation: /ˈfɜː.nɪ.t͡ʃə/

The English word “furniture” has 19 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
  2. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
  3. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
  4. An accompanying enhancing feature, or features collectively; embellishment, decoration, trimming.
  5. The stock and forearm of a weapon.
  6. 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.
  7. The stumps.
  8. 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).
  9. A type of mixture organ stop.
  10. Draped coverings and hangings; bedsheets, tablecloths, tapestries, etc.
  11. Clothing with which a person is furnished; apparel, outfit.
  12. Arms and armor, equipment of war.
  13. Equipment for work, apparatus, tools, instruments.
  14. Condiments of a salad.
  15. Stock, supply, stores, provisions.
  16. Contents; that with which something is filled or stocked.
  17. Impressive-looking books used for filling out the collection of a private library.
  18. The action of furnishing or supplying.
  19. 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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