furniture

Plural: furnitures

Noun

• furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy
  • "they had too much furniture for the small apartment"
  • "there was only one piece of furniture in the room"
• 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.

Examples

• A chair is furniture. Sofas are also furniture.
• How much furniture did they leave behind?
• The woman does not even have one stick of furniture moved in yet.
• They bought a couple of pieces of furniture.
• Your furniture is beautiful.

Synonyms

article of furniture, piece of furniture, furnishings, furniture

Related Words

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