piece of furniture
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1.1
- noun
- /piːs əv ˈfɜrnɪtʃər/
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mueble
- The luxury apartment has a few pieces of furniture and some unopened boxes in it.
I swear I have owned this piece of furniture at some stage in my life.
- I swear I have owned this piece of furniture at some stage in my life.
- Mind you, upstairs was empty, not a single piece of furniture.
- We move a piece of furniture across the room, we park the car where it's convenient.
- In fact, one day build that's coming up soon involves A bonafide piece of furniture that I made for the house and it was.
- I love this stuff, so turning a toolbox into a piece of furniture essentially.
- OK, what do you consider to be the sexiest piece of furniture?
- The process of making an original design piece of furniture is often very, very involved.
- I have this huge ass box of my crafting supplies in here so the first thing you need is a piece of furniture or something you want to redo.
- But yeah, my guess is looking for that, that colorful friendly, I'm almost calling it like a piece of furniture decoration at this point that that's functional.
Examples
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Every piece of furniture is where it is because I decided to put it there.
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- So I wanted to tell you that my mom loved the piece of furniture that you made her.
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So my goal is to eventually build every single piece of furniture that is in that new house.
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I even planned out where every piece of furniture should go.
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To see a piece of furniture take shape, it's like watching a child grow.
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The great hall contained just two pieces of furniture: a table and a curious chair.
Fiction book (1992) -
The auctioneer offered three more pieces of furniture, and they all went to the woman from Bozeman, too.
Fiction book (2000) -
Your mother wants to buy us a substantial piece of furniture, and that's the biggest thing that I could find that will fit in our apartment.
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Archie stood and looked at the forlorn piece of furniture for some time.
Fiction book (1990) -
My sister recently bought a beautiful piece of furniture for her living room.
Synonyms
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1.0
A piece of furniture with a mattress for sleeping
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A flat-topped piece of furniture with legs used for eating or working
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1.0
The part of a chair or bench that you sit on
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An object that belongs to a set, like a chess figure
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1.0
A long flat surface in a shop where people serve or sell items
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1.3
A piece of furniture with shelves or drawers for storing things
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1.5
A small table next to a bed for a lamp or books
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3.8
A large sofa with separate parts that fit together
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1.6
A piece of furniture with shelves and drawers for storing and showing dishes
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3.9
A long seat with a back for two or more people, like a small sofa
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8.3
A long low cabinet with cupboards for holding dishes or serving food in a dining room
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2.6
A piece of furniture with drawers for storing clothes and small items
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2.6
A large seat with soft cushions for two or more people that opens into a bed
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2.7
A piece of furniture with shelves or drawers for dishes
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3.4
A long seat like a couch that you can use as a bed
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2.8
A large piece of furniture put against a wall to store or show things
A piece of furniture or equipment fixed in a room, like built-in shelves
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an individual item of furniture' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'piece' (an individual item) with the partitive preposition 'of' and 'furniture' (large household items). This simple compositional noun + of + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English usage, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Piece of furniture comes from the picture of a room full of things: one piece of the room's furniture is a 'chair' or a 'table'. So it means 'one item' such as a 'chair', 'table', or 'bed'.