furniture

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furniture

  • /ˈfɜː.nɪ.t͡ʃə/ UK
  • /ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ US

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From Middle French fourniture (“a supply, or the act of furnishing”), from fournir (“to furnish”).

noun furnitures

  1. uncountable, usually Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively. The woman does not even have one stick of furniture moved in yet.
  2. uncountable, usually The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal. 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.
  3. uncountable, usually Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item. […]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.
  4. obsolete, uncountable, usually An accompanying enhancing feature, or features collectively; embellishment, decoration, trimming. 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.
  5. uncountable, usually The stock and forearm of a weapon.
  6. historical, uncountable, usually 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. slang, uncountable, usually The stumps.
  8. uncountable, usually 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). It read: “This article was amended on 3 January 2023. The original furniture said the fireworks display was on Christmas Eve.”
  9. uncountable, usually A type of mixture organ stop.
  10. archaic, uncountable, usually Draped coverings and hangings; bedsheets, tablecloths, tapestries, etc.
  11. obsolete, uncountable, usually Clothing with which a person is furnished; apparel, outfit.
  12. obsolete, uncountable, usually Arms and armor, equipment of war.
  13. archaic, uncountable, usually Equipment for work, apparatus, tools, instruments.
  14. in plural, obsolete, uncountable, usually Condiments of a salad.
  15. obsolete, uncountable, usually Stock, supply, stores, provisions.
  16. obsolete, uncountable, usually Contents; that with which something is filled or stocked.
  17. uncountable, usually Impressive-looking books used for filling out the collection of a private library.
  18. obsolete, uncountable, usually The action of furnishing or supplying.
  19. obsolete, uncountable, usually The condition of being equipped, prepared, or mentally cultivated.

Similar: furniture, furnishings

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: lumber, furnishing, furnishings, cabinet, couch, sofa, equipment, décor, upholstery, decoration, carpentry, materiel, movable, moveable, piece, household

noun

Similar: furniture, furnishings

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noun large movable items

Españolmuebles, mobiliario, moblaje, amoblamiento, amueblamiento, amoblado
한국어가구 gagu
日本語家具 kagu
中文家具 jiājù
हिन्दीअसबाब asbāb, फ़र्नीचर farnīcar
Kiswahilifanicha
Portuguêsmobília
Françaismobilier, meubles
DeutschMöbel, Möbelstück, Mobiliar, Mobilien, Einrichtungsgegenstand, Möblierung
Italianomobilio
Ελληνικάέπιπλο épiplo, έπιπλα épipla
Românămobilă
Русскийме́бель mébelʹ, предме́т ме́бели predmét mébeli
Tiếng Việtđồ đạc
العربيةأَثَاث ʔaṯāṯ, مَفْرُوشَات mafrūšāt, فَرْش farš
עבריתרָהִיט rahít

noun harness, trappings etc. of an animal

DeutschGeschirr, Zaumzeug, Prunkgeschirr, Pferdegeschirr, Gurtgeschirr, Beschirrung

noun fittings of a wooden item

DeutschBeschläge, Beschlag

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@misc{furniture_2026,
  title = {furniture},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/furniture},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}