Dictionary Definition
furnish
Verb
1 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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Verb
transitive- To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
- (Figuratively)
To supply or give.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition
(1995), page 119
- ...he took his seat at the bottom of the table, by her ladyship's desire, and looked as if he felt that life could furnish nothing greater.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition
(1995), page 119
Translations
to provide with furniture
to supply
- Finnish: varustaa
- Japanese: 供給する (きょうきゅうする, kyōkyū-suru)
- Swedish: tillhandahålla
- ttbc French: fournir
- ttbc Ido: furnisar
- ttbc Polish: dostarczać
- ttbc Spanish: Suministrar, Dar. Brindar un sitio o lugar con muebles, equipos o accesorios ya puestos o listos.
- ttbc Turkish: techiz etmek (1), donatmak (2)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accommodate, accommodate
with, accouter,
adapt, adjust, afford, apparel, appoint, arm, array, attune, bear, bear fruit, bring forth,
capacitate, clothe, condition, contribute, decorate, deliver, dispense, donate, dower, dress, enable, endow, endue, equip, favor with, feed, fill, fill up, find, fit, fit out, fit up, fructify, fruit, fund, gear, give, hand, hand over, heap upon,
heel, indulge with,
invest, keep, lavish upon, maintain, make available, make
provision for, man, mount, munition, outfit, pour on, prepare, present, produce, provide, provide for, provision, put in trim, put in
tune, qualify, recruit, replenish, rig, rig out, rig up, shower down
upon, staff, stock, stock up, store, subsidize, suit, supply, support, transfer, tune, turn out, turn over, yield