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say it: FUR-ni-shing
furnishing is a noun meaning "(usually plural) accessory wearing apparel". It is pronounced /ˈfɝnɪʃɪŋ/ — FUR-ni-shing. It carries 3 recorded senses.
(usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable
plural
the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc.
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for furnishing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.