different between furniture vs decor

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??n?t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f?n?t??/

Noun

furniture (usually uncountable, plural furnitures)

1. (now usually uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.

   They bought a couple of pieces of furniture.

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].
2. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
3. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
4. (firearms) The stock and forearm of a weapon.
5. (printing, historical) The pieces of wood or metal put round pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.
6. (journalism) Any material on the page other than the text and pictures of stories.

Usage notes

• Before the end of the nineteenth century, the plural furnitures existed in Standard English in both the U.S. and the U.K.; during the twentieth century, however, it ceased to be used by native speakers.
• A single item of furniture, such as a chair or a table, is often called a piece of furniture.
• In many languages "piece of furniture" is one word, and often its plural form is the equivalent of the English "furniture", for example French meuble / meubles.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:furniture

Meronyms

• drawer
• wardrobe

Derived terms

Related terms

• furnish

Translations

Further reading

• furniture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• furniture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• décor

Etymology

From French décor

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?de?k??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??k??/
• Rhymes: -??(?) (American pronunciation)

Noun

decor (countable and uncountable, plural decors)

1. The style of decoration of a room or building.

   Her living room had a lush Persian-style decor.

2. A stage setting; scenery; set; backdrop.

Translations

Anagrams

• Coder, OCRed, coder, cored, credo

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French décor, from Latin decor or decus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de??k?r/
• Hyphenation: de?cor
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

decor n (plural decors, diminutive decortje n)

1. stage setting, decor, scenery
2. decor; decoration

Derived terms

• decorbouw

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dekor
• ? Indonesian: dekor

References

Latin

Etymology

See decus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?de.kor/, [?d??k?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?de.kor/, [?d???k?r]

Noun

decor m (genitive dec?ris); third declension

1. elegance, grace
2. beauty, charm

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• dec?rus

Descendants

• Russian: ?????? (dekór)

References

• decor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• decor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• decor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French décor.

Noun

decor n (plural decoruri)

1. decor

Declension