EGAVE

furniture

About 13.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
    The woman does not even have one stick of furniture moved in yet.
  2. noun The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
  3. noun Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
  4. noun An accompanying enhancing feature, or features collectively; embellishment, decoration, trimming.
  5. noun The stock and forearm of a weapon.
  6. noun The pieces of wood or metal put around pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.
  7. noun The stumps.
  8. noun Any material on the page other than the body text and pictures of articles; for example, headlines, datelines and dinkuses, lines and symbols (though in earlier use, only non-text elements of page design, such as lines and symbols).

Similar words

piece of furniture article of furniture lumber furnishing furnishings cabinet couch sofa equipment upholstery

Often followed by

and of in was is for to that or

Word family

furnitures

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