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noun

fixture

FIHKS-chuh
noun
1
A permanent fitting or appliance attached to a building, such as a sink or light.
"The lease includes all fixtures and fittings."
"They installed a new lighting fixture in the hallway."
2
A scheduled sports match or event.
"Saturday's fixture was postponed due to rain."
3
A person or thing so constantly present somewhere that they seem a permanent part of it.
"He's been a fixture at the local pub for thirty years."

How to Use Fixture

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishA permanently installed item, a scheduled match, or someone/something that's always around.

Common pairings
light fixture sports fixture a fixture of the community

Word Forms

fixtured past tense, fixtures plural, fixtures singular

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Etymology

An altered form of the older word "fixure," reshaped to match "mixture."

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