- 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.
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesa2, Shoppinga2- 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
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- antique
- period
- contemporary
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- item
- piece
- arrange
- move
- move around
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- item
- piece
- dealer
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- furniture and fittings
Word Originearly 16th cent. (denoting ‘the action of furnishing’): from French fourniture, from fournir, from Old French furnir ‘to furnish’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See furniture in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee furniture in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishpart of the furniture
- (informal) 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.
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