Furnish Definition

fûrnĭsh
furnished, furnishes, furnishing
verb
furnished, furnishes, furnishing
To provide (what is needed or desired).
Furnished the snacks for the party.
American Heritage
To supply, provide, or equip with whatever is necessary or useful; esp., to put furniture into (a room, apartment, etc.)
Webster's New World
To supply; provide; give.
To furnish information.
Webster's New World
To have as an available or desirable feature.
A courtyard that furnishes a fine view.
American Heritage

To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.

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noun

Material used to create an engineered product.

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Origin of Furnish

  • From Middle English furnysshen, from Old French furniss-, stem of certain parts of furnir, fornir (Modern French fournir), from Germanic, from Frankish *frumjan (“to complete, execute”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”). Cognate with Old High German frumjan (“to perform, provide”), Old High German fruma (“utility, gain”), Old English fremu (“profit, advantage”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at frame, frim.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English furnisshen from Old French fournir fourniss- of Germanic origin per1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Furnish Sentence Examples

  • The marriage registers furnish another test of education.

  • The blastostyles, gonophores and gonothecae furnish a series of variations which can best be considered as so many stages of evolution.

  • There is actually no place in this village for a work of fine art, if any had come down to us, to stand, for our lives, our houses and streets, furnish no proper pedestal for it.

  • It is well stocked with trout, and the steep declivities of the lower valley furnish red wines of excellent quality.

  • Their only obligation to the Turkish government is to furnish a contingent in time of war; the only law they recognize is either traditional custom(adet) or the unwritten Kanun-i Leks Dukajinit, a civil and criminal code, so called from its author, Leka Dukajini, who is supposed to have lived in the 13th or 14th century.

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Words Starting With

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HSHISH

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