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furniture
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)
- (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 […].
- The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
- Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
- (firearms) The stock and forearm of a weapon.
- (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.
- (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.
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sweetgum
English
Etymology
sweet +? gum
Noun
sweetgum (plural sweetgums)
- Alternative form of sweet gum
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