furniture
furniture
noun
/ˈfɜːnɪtʃə(r)/
uncountable
​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
garden/office furniture
a dealer in antique furniture
a piece of furniture
We need to buy some new furniture.
SEE ALSO door furniture, street furniture
TOPICS Houses and homes A2
TOPICS Shopping A2
adjective
antiqueperiodcontemporary…
… of furniture
itempiece
verb + furniture
arrangemovemove around…
furniture + noun
itempiecedealer…
phrases
furniture and fittings
Idioms
part of the furniture
Word Origin
early 16th cent. (denoting ‘the action of furnishing’): from French fourniture, from fournir, from Old French furnir ‘to furnish’.