Definitions for Furnish
ˈfɜr nɪʃfur·nish

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. supply, provide, render, furnishverb

   give something useful or necessary to

   "We provided the room with an electrical heater"

2. furnishverb

   provide or equip with furniture

   "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. furnishnoun

   Material used to create an engineered product.

2. furnishverb

   To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.

3. furnishverb

   To supply or give.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To FURNISHverb

   Etymology: fournir, French.

   1. To supply with what is necessary.

   She hath directed
   How I shall take her from her father’s house;
   What gold and jewels she is furnish’d with. William Shakespeare.

   His training such,
   That he may furnish and instruct great teachers,
   And never seek for aid out of himself. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock. Deut. xv.

   Auria, having driven the Turks from Corone, both by sea and land, furnished the city with corn, wine, victual, and powder. Richard Knolles, History of the Turks.

   Come, thou stranger, and furnish a table, and feed me of that thou hast ready. Ecclus. xxix. 26.

   I shall not need to heap up instances; every one’s reading and conversation will sufficiently furnish him, if he wants to be better stored. John Locke.

   2. To give things for use.

   These simple ideas, the materials of all our knowledge, are suggested and furnished to the mind only by these two ways, sensation and reflection. John Locke.

   It is not any action of the state, but a compact among private persons that hath furnished out these several remittances. Joseph Addison, Remarks on Italy.

   3. To fit up; to fit with appendages.

   Something deeper,
   Whereof perchance these are but furnishings. William Shakespeare.

   Plato entertained some of his friends at dinner, and had in the chamber a bed or couch, neatly and costly furnished. Diogenes came in, and got up upon the bed, and trampled it, saying, I trample upon the pride of Plato. Plato mildly answered, But with greater pride, Diogenes. Francis Bacon, Apophth.

   We were led into another great room, furnished with old inscriptions. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

   4. To equip; to fit out for any undertaking.

   Will your lordship lend me a thousand pounds to furnish me? William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. i.

   Ideas, forms, and intellects,
   Have furnish’d out three diff’rent sects. Matthew Prior.

   Doubtless the man Jesus Christ is furnished with superior powers to all the angels in heaven, because he is employed in superior work. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.

   5. To decorate; to adorn.

   The wounded arm would furnish all their rooms,
   And bleed for ever scarlet in the looms. Charles Montagu.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Furnish

   Furnish is a surname.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. furnish

   Furnish refers to the action of providing or equipping with whatever is necessary or useful for a certain purpose. It often involves providing furniture for a room or building, or supplying with provisions, equipment, or information. It may also imply the act of giving or offering something.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Furnishverb

   to supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house

2. Furnishverb

   to offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense

3. Furnishnoun

   that which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply

4. Etymology: [OF. furnir, fornir, to furnish, finish, F. fournir; akin to Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and -ish.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Furnish

   fur′nish, v.t. to fit up or supply completely, or with what is necessary: to equip (with).—adj. Fur′nished, stocked with furniture.—n. Fur′nisher.—n.pl. Fur′nishings, fittings of any kind, esp. articles of furniture, &c., within a house: (Shak.) any incidental part.—n. Fur′nishment. [O. Fr. furniss-, furnir—Old High Ger. frummjan, to do.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. furnish

   To provide; to equip; as, to furnish one with arms for defense.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FURNISH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Furnish is ranked #19997 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Furnish surname appeared 1,339 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Furnish.
   
   95% or 1,273 total occurrences were White.
   2% or 27 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.4% or 20 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.9% or 13 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Give
   • Provide

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Furnish' in Verbs Frequency: #1071

Anagrams for Furnish »

1. runfish

How to pronounce Furnish?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Furnish in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Furnish in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Furnish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Furnish in a Sentence

1. Gandolfo - (RJ Intindola):

   Plant the flower of love on fertile ground, and provide personal care; furnish water during a drought; offer substance so it will grow strong, and always prune the deadened branches to spring anew.

2. Anthony Burgess:

   Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

3. Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS:

   ...as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings...

4. Nancy Pelosi:

   The law is very clear, the law says that upon written request from the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means or the chairman of( Senate) Finance or the chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation... the Secretary shall furnish, shall -- not may, should, could -- shall furnish such committee with any return or return information specified in such request.

5. Alan Simpson:

   A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Furnish
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Furnish
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Furnish
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furnish
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Furnish
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Furnish
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html