word-vault/dist/data/cards/fu/furniture.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "furniture",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "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",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "garden/office furniture"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a dealer in antique furniture"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **piece of furniture**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to buy some new furniture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "All the original furniture and fittings will be reinstated."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The room would look bigger if we rearranged the furniture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The wood is used for making fine furniture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an 18th-century town house, complete with period furniture"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes", "Shopping"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["antique", "period", "contemporary"],
                "… of furniture": ["item", "piece"],
                "verb + furniture": ["arrange", "move", "move around"],
                "furniture + noun": ["item", "piece", "dealer"],
                "phrases": ["furniture and fittings"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person or thing that you are so used to seeing that you no longer notice them",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I worked there so long that I became part of the furniture."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfɜːnɪtʃə(r)/",
                "audio": "fu/furniture/furniture__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfɜːrnɪtʃər/",
                "audio": "fu/furniture/furniture__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 16th cent. (denoting ‘the action of furnishing’): from French fourniture, from fournir, from Old French furnir ‘to furnish’."
}