the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.
fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something.
equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins.
Also called bearer, dead metal.Printing. pieces of wood or metal, less than type high, set in and about pages of type to fill them out and hold the type in place in a chase.
Origin of furniture
1520–30; <French fourniture, derivative of fournir to furnish
The carpeting is worn, the furniture is falling apart, and the electricity is out for most of the day.
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They were carpenters making chairs, beds and other rudimentary pieces of furniture for the locals.
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The charisma and brand of the artist itself becomes a kind of furniture.
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Residents had placed makeshift roadblocks, including wooden beams and furniture, on roads leading to the protest.
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Otherwise, he must abandon his house; the al Qaeda members offered to help remove his furniture.
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This harmonious piece of furniture was the finest ornament of a house which the garde-voies had made their home.
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Not only large substantial things like furniture, but curtains and the patterns of stuffs and the fringes of quilts and cushions.
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Thus can we cut the finest trees of a forest to make fire of, or for furniture.
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And if you never clean your furniture properly, how can your rooms or wards be anything but musty?
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When one has only a few pieces of furniture it does not take long to get them in place.
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British Dictionary definitions for furniture
furniture
/ (ˈfɜːnɪtʃə) /
noun
the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
the equipment necessary for a ship, factory, etc
printinglengths of wood, plastic, or metal, used in assembling formes to create the blank areas and to surround the type
the wooden parts of a rifle
obsoletethe full armour, trappings, etc, for a man and horse
the attitudes or characteristics that are typical of a person or thingthe furniture of the murderer's mind
part of the furnitureinformalsomeone or something that is so long established in an environment as to be accepted as an integral part of ithe has been here so long that he is part of the furniture
See door furniture, street furniture
Word Origin for furniture
C16: from French fourniture, from fournir to equip, furnish