Furniture (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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. 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.
noun
  1. the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  2. the equipment necessary for a ship, factory, etc
  3. 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. the full armour, trappings, etc, for a man and horse
  6. the attitudes or characteristics that are typical of a person or thing
  7. someone or something that is so long established in an environment as to be accepted as an integral part of it
  8. See door furniture, street furniture
Furniture (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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