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furniture - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'furniture' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Furniture [ v. t.]
- That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.
- Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.
- The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.
- The masts and rigging of a ship.
- The mountings of a gun.
- Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.
- Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.
- A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.

Meaning of 'furniture' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . furniture [ n]
Meaning (1):
- furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy
Example in sentence:
  • there was only one piece of furniture in the room;
  • they had too much furniture for the small apartment

Nearby Words:

fur furacious furacity furbelow furbelowed furbelowing furbish furbishable furbished furbisher

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