Furniture Noun Bre ˈfɜːnɪtʃə(R ˈfɜːrnɪtʃər Piece Garden/Office Buy

• a piece of furniture
• garden/office, etc. furniture
• we need to buy some new furniture.
• all the original furniture and fittings will be reinstated.

furniture

1. objects that can be moved, such as tables, chairs and beds, that are put into a house or an office to make it suitable for living or working in
• see also door furniture
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• a piece of furniture
• garden/office, etc. furniture
• We need to buy some new furniture.
2. a person or thing that you are so used to seeing that you no longer notice them
• I worked there so long that I became part of the furniture.

Extra Examples

• All the original furniture and fittings will be reinstated.
• The room would look bigger if we rearranged the furniture.
• The wood is used for making fine furniture.
• an 18th-century town house, complete with period furniture

Word Origin

• early 16th cent. (denoting ‘the action of furnishing’): from French fourniture, from fournir, from Old French furnir ‘to furnish’.