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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
furnish
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a furnished/unfurnished apartment (=with or without furniture)
▪ a luxurious two-bedroomed unfurnished apartment situated in the heart of town
a furnished/unfurnished flat (=a rented flat that does or does not have furniture)
▪ She found a job and a furnished flat.
comfortably furnished
▪ The hotel is modern and comfortably furnished.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
comfortably
▪ All rooms are comfortably furnished and have their own shower and loo.
▪ Bedrooms are comfortably furnished, and some of them have excellent views of the surrounding mountains.
▪ All the studios and apartments sleep 2-4 people and are comfortably furnished with private bathroom facilities and a balcony with sea view.
▪ Bedrooms are comfortably furnished, predominantly in wood, and have private bathrooms and balconies.
▪ Bedrooms are comfortably furnished, those in the Alte Post a telephone, radio and easy chairs.
▪ The hotel bedrooms are comfortably furnished and all have a telephone.
▪ They are comfortably furnished and most have a hair dryer.
▪ The rooms are very comfortably furnished with carpets and modern bathrooms and have telephones and music systems.
fully
▪ The bungalow was fully furnished and equipped.
▪ Although fully furnished it had an air of emptiness and desolation.
simply
▪ Bedrooms are simply furnished with telephone and safety deposit box.
▪ The bedrooms are simply furnished and have a large balcony and air-conditioning.
▪ It is very simply furnished with pine used throughout.
▪ The interior is furnished simply but very pleasantly in keeping with the old-world cottage ambience of the house.
sparsely
▪ It was sparsely furnished, for Anne had only just come into her inheritance, but it was newly decorated and clean.
▪ His office is a light, sparsely furnished room without a desk.
▪ The room was sparsely furnished with an ancient sideboard, a small kitchen-dresser, a table and two chairs.
▪ One room is a sparsely furnished office and showroom with eight caskets on display.
▪ Bedrooms are sparsely furnished and the dining rooms look drab.
▪ She put her fists into her lap and crouched in her chair, the way people die in sparsely furnished rooms.
▪ It was sparsely furnished and grimy.
▪ His head was slumped against a leather strap chained to the headboard of the king-size bed in the sparsely furnished living room.
well
▪ Rooms are well furnished, twin bedded, with private showers and balconies.
▪ The room was small but well furnished.
▪ It is well furnished, and almost aggressively expresses Mrs Harrington's personality.
▪ The rooms are well furnished and bedrooms have telephone, radio and mini-bar.
▪ Bedrooms are well furnished and all have private bathroom and telephone.
▪ The bedrooms are all well furnished, and each has its own bathroom, balcony, radio and telephone.
■ NOUN
bedroom
▪ The rooms are well furnished and bedrooms have telephone, radio and mini-bar.
home
▪ Any readers attempting to furnish a home should find ample material in the September issue.
▪ Designers' Saturday is not an exhibition of how to furnish your home, but concerns itself with interior design as a whole.
house
▪ One would furnish houses and arrange landscapes; one might go dangerously far and people them with ... children.
▪ How, the, could I have a furnished house?
▪ Middleton was granted £100 to enable him to furnish his house.
▪ Mrs Warfield helped them furnish the house, and they moved in.
▪ It's all articles on how to keep young and furnish your house and take control of your-Her: Noooo.
▪ With my eyes shut, I furnish the house with comfortable chairs, good lights, new books, musical instruments.
room
▪ Bedrooms are sparsely furnished and the dining rooms look drab.
▪ His office is a light, sparsely furnished room without a desk.
▪ Once you've decided which applications you want in every room, you can then furnish each room with its own applications.
▪ It was a good-sized, heavily furnished room with windows on the canal.
▪ It was furnished like any room.
▪ She put her fists into her lap and crouched in her chair, the way people die in sparsely furnished rooms.
▪ His head was slumped against a leather strap chained to the headboard of the king-size bed in the sparsely furnished living room.
▪ We must furnish our spare room at once if this sort of thing is to happen often.
style
▪ The beamed lounge with its log fire is elegantly furnished in a country-house style.
▪ The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have air-conditioning.
▪ The bedrooms are furnished in older style and have a private bathroom, though they do vary in size.
▪ But don't be tied by necessity or convention to furnish all in one style.
▪ It was furnished in a style which was new to the tall boy.
▪ Each is furnished in a modern style with private facilities and at least one balcony.
▪ It was furnished in Louis Quinze style.
▪ It was newly furnished in a style guaranteed not to offend, a nice compromise of bureaucratic orthodoxy and modern functionalism.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Buyers of any gun must furnish two pieces of identification.
▪ Nina's room was plainly furnished with a bed and a desk.
▪ The house was furnished in the most beautiful taste.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adam helps him to the Hermitage, which he is surprised to find furnished as a den for Arthur.
▪ All rooms are comfortably furnished and have their own shower and loo.
▪ Bedrooms are simply furnished and have telephone.
▪ For every automobile we furnish an accident.
▪ It has three pretty bedrooms, decorated in well-chosen fabrics, and furnished with antiques and pine.
▪ The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have air-conditioning.
▪ The contrast is great and can furnish some important understandings.
▪ They furnish experts to whatever part of the government needs it, including state and local governments.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Furnish

Furnish \Fur"nish\, n. That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply. [Obs.]
--Greene.

Furnish

Furnish \Fur"nish\ (f[^u]r"n[i^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furnished; p. pr. & vb. n. Furnishing.] [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.]

  1. 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.

    That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
    --2 Tim. iii. 17,

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

    Ye are they . . . that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
    --Is. lxv. 11.

    His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense.
    --Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
furnish

mid-15c., "fit out, equip, to provision" (a castle, ship, person); "provide (soldiers)," from Old French furniss-/forniss-, present participle stem of furnir/fornir "accomplish, carry out; equip, fit out; provide" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *fornire, alteration of *fromire, from West Germanic *frumjan "forward movement, advancement" (source also of Old High German frumjan "to do, execute, provide"), from Proto-Germanic *fram- "forwards" (see from). General meaning "to provide" (something) is from 1520s; specifically "provide furniture for a room or house" from 1640s. Related: Furnished; furnishing.

Wiktionary
furnish

n. Material used to create an engineered product. vb. (lb en transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.

WordNet
furnish

  1. v. provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" [syn: supply, provide, render]

  2. provide or equip with furniture; "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style"

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Wikipedia
Furnish

Furnish is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • David Furnish (born 1962), a Canadian filmmaker
  • William M. Furnish (1912-2007), an American paleontologist

Usage examples of "furnish".

A hundred and thirty of these were furnished by Egypt and the adjacent coast of Africa.

In fact, he mused, when he was young, akasa chambers were not furnished.

Walton had been known to brag that her house was the best furnished in the street, and on this she was right When in 1916 and at the age of seventeen she had married Alee, he was just out of his time in the shipyard and owing to the war earning good money.

The only room which suggested nothing of the anchorite was the dressingroom, furnished with all the comforts and conveniences necessary to an elegant and fastidious man of the world.

Army would not be disarmed but would be furnished with modern equipment, that her frontiers were to stay the same as those traced in the two Viennese Arbitrage decisions and, concerning the return of the entire Transylvanian territory, a separate proposition would have to be submitted.

Then they came to an arbour, warm, and promising much refreshing to the pilgrims, for it was finely wrought above head, beautified with greens, and furnished with couches and settles.

The atelier of the American painter was furnished with a harmonious sumptuousness which real artists know how to gather around them.

He had brought along his old backpack even though the auberge stood ready to furnish all equipment.

When the king of Prussia was put under the ban of the empire, the several princes who compose that body were required, by the decree of the Aulic council, as we observed before, to furnish their respective contingents against him.

Under this authorization the United States entered into Mutual Aid Agreements whereby the government furnished its allies in the recent war forty billions of dollars worth of munitions of war and other supplies.

Cardan left as his contribution to letters and science, except in the case of those works which are, in purpose or incidentally, autobiographical, or of those which furnish in themselves effective contributions towards the framing of an estimate of the genius and character of the writer.

At length she ushered me into a living room cozily furnished in the manner of a bachelorette apartment and insisted I take a seat on the sofa, then went through a door into the next room, reappearing seconds later carrying a tray on which were glasses and a bottle of red wine.

The choicest tapestries which the looms of Arras could furnish draped the walls, whereon the battles of Judas Maccabaeus were set forth, with the Jewish warriors in plate of proof, with crest and lance and banderole, as the naive artists of the day were wont to depict them.

Anyway, Hacking will continue to furnish us bauxite if we will send him all our black citizens in return for his Wahhabi and Dravidian citizens.

Afterwards he was in the service of the Elector Palatine, furnishing the Bibliotheca Palatina in Heidelberg.