fixture

Synonyms for fixture

noun fitting, appliance

noun. furnishing(s)

noun. something joined, fastened to another

noun. something joined, fastened to another

noun. household object

noun. contrived object; scheme

1590s, "act of fixing," perhaps from fix (v.) on model of mixture. Meaning "anything fixed or securely fastened" is from 1812.

The door was no more a part and fixture of that home than she was.

We then get a more definite idea of the nut, which was in most cases a fixture.

Dinner alone was a "fixture;" everything else was at the caprice of each.

To be sure, everybody spoke to him as though he were a fixture in the land.

She regarded herself, as did all the better-class employees, as a fixture.

Camerino was always there; he was a sort of fixture in the house.

It has had set on it recently an iron frame or fixture for a gas-lamp.

He was very faithful and responsible, and soon became a fixture on the place.

With two sticks, I can hobble about the house and garden; without them, behold me a fixture.

Graves's pet was as much a fixture of Graves's house as the front door.