furniture

[ fur-ni-cher ]

noun

1. the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.
2. fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something.
3. equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins.
4. Also called bearer,. 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.

furniture

/ ˈfɜːnɪtʃə /

noun

1. the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
2. the equipment necessary for a ship, factory, etc
3. printing lengths of wood, plastic, or metal, used in assembling formes to create the blank areas and to surround the type
4. the wooden parts of a rifle
5. obsolete.
   the full armour, trappings, etc, for a man and horse
6. the attitudes or characteristics that are typical of a person or thing

   the furniture of the murderer's mind

7. part of the furniture informal.
   part of the furniture someone or something that is so long established in an environment as to be accepted as an integral part of it

   he has been here so long that he is part of the furniture

8. See street furniture, door furniture
   See door furniture street furniture

Other Words From

• fur·ni·ture·less adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of furniture¹

1520–30; < French fourniture, derivative of fournir to furnish

Word History and Origins

Origin of furniture¹

C16: from French fourniture , from fournir to equip, furnish

Example Sentences

Among them, the lawsuit says, is an alleged failure by Us Helping Us to remove office furniture from the building during the renovation work and the presence of Us Helping Us employees working in the building at the time of the renovation.

From Washington Blade

Harlem Shuffle, about a furniture salesman wrapped up in a double life of crime, is something of a departure.

From Time

Investigators also said the biomedical arm wrongly covered millions of dollars in other administrative costs, such as having furniture removed from other parts of the building where its office was housed.

From Washington Post

This piece of bedroom furniture will mold to your body weight and quickly return to its original shape when you get up, which means less time spent shuffling positions while trying to get comfortable every time you get into bed.

From Popular-Science

Down the road, it’s possible we’ll not only build furniture—but grow it too.

From Singularity Hub 

Many hold classes in their living rooms, asking students to help re-arrange and then later put back furniture.

From The Daily Beast

The carpeting is worn, the furniture is falling apart, and the electricity is out for most of the day.

From The Daily Beast

They were carpenters making chairs, beds and other rudimentary pieces of furniture for the locals.

From The Daily Beast

The charisma and brand of the artist itself becomes a kind of furniture.

From The Daily Beast

Residents had placed makeshift roadblocks, including wooden beams and furniture, on roads leading to the protest.

From The Daily Beast

Then, with one accord, they all rose and began to steer their way around the furniture toward the hall, Goliath following.

From Project Gutenberg

She opened the door of a square room with large roses on the white wall-paper, and fine old mahogany furniture.

From Project Gutenberg

The plain furniture was stiffly arranged, and there was no litter of clothing or small feminine belongings.

From Project Gutenberg

"I'd have been in a pretty fix if he had finished my house, and I had tried to move my furniture into it," he muttered.

From Project Gutenberg

It has been stated that many articles of furniture, &c., made by him are still in use.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• appliance
• bed
• bookcase
• chair
• couch
• desk
• equipment
• goods
• sofa
• table