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Noun [English]

IPA: /əˈpɒl.stə(ɹ)/ [UK], /əˈpɐl.stə(ɹ)/ [UK] Forms: upholsters [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English upholdester, upholster; equivalent to uphold + -ster. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|upholdester}} Middle English upholdester, {{suffix|en|uphold|ster}} uphold + -ster, {{smallcaps|Uphold}} Uphold, {{smallcaps|-ster}} -ster Head templates: {{en-noun}} upholster (plural upholsters)
  1. (archaic) An upholder, a dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholsterer; a tradesman who finishes furniture. Tags: archaic Synonyms: upholdster Derived forms: upholsterer, upholstery
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [English]

IPA: /əˈpɒl.stə(ɹ)/ [UK], /əˈpɐl.stə(ɹ)/ [UK] Forms: upholsters [present, singular, third-person], upholstering [participle, present], upholstered [participle, past], upholstered [past]
Etymology: Back-formation from upholsterer (“tradesman who finishes furniture”), from Middle English upholdester, from Middle English upholder (“dealer in small goods”), from upholden (“to repair, uphold”); equivalent to uphold + -ster. Etymology templates: {{back-formation|en|upholsterer|t=tradesman who finishes furniture}} Back-formation from upholsterer (“tradesman who finishes furniture”), {{smallcaps|Upholsterer}} Upholsterer, {{smallcaps|Upholstery}} Upholstery, {{inh|en|enm|upholdester}} Middle English upholdester, {{der|en|enm|upholder|t=dealer in small goods}} Middle English upholder (“dealer in small goods”), {{af|en|uphold|-ster}} uphold + -ster Head templates: {{en-verb}} upholster (third-person singular simple present upholsters, present participle upholstering, simple past and past participle upholstered)
  1. (transitive) To fit padding, stuffing, springs, webbing and fabric covering to (furniture). Tags: transitive Derived forms: re-upholster, reupholster, reupholsterer, reupholstery, upholstered, unupholstered, well-upholstered, upholstering Translations (fit padding etc. to furniture): مُنَجِّد (munajjid) (Arabic), тапицирам (tapiciram) (Bulgarian), entapissar (Catalan), polsteren (Dutch), bekleden (Dutch), polstra (Faroese), bólstra (Faroese), verhoilla (Finnish), polstern (German), επιπλοστρώνω (epiplostróno) (Greek), kárpitoz (Hungarian), cumhdaigh (Irish), tappezzare (Italian), тапаци́ра (tapacíra) (Macedonian), whakapurupuru (Maori), whakapuru (Maori), capitona (Romanian), tapisa (Romanian), обива́ть (obivátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), оби́ть (obítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), tapizar (Spanish)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "polstra"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "bólstra"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "verhoilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "polstern"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "epiplostróno",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "επιπλοστρώνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "kárpitoz"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "cumhdaigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "tappezzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "tapacíra",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "тапаци́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "whakapurupuru"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "whakapuru"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "capitona"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "tapisa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obivátʹ",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "обива́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obítʹ",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "оби́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fit padding etc. to furniture",
      "word": "tapizar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "upholster"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms suffixed with -ster",
    "English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs",
    "Pages with 1 entry"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "upholsterer"
    },
    {
      "word": "upholstery"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "upholdester"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English upholdester",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "ster"
      },
      "expansion": "uphold + -ster",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Uphold"
      },
      "expansion": "Uphold",
      "name": "smallcaps"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-ster"
      },
      "expansion": "-ster",
      "name": "smallcaps"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English upholdester, upholster; equivalent to uphold + -ster.",
  "forms": [
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
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        "An upholder, a dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholsterer; a tradesman who finishes furniture."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "upholder",
          "upholder"
        ],
        [
          "dealer",
          "dealer"
        ],
        [
          "secondhand",
          "secondhand"
        ],
        [
          "furniture",
          "furniture"
        ],
        [
          "clothes",
          "clothes"
        ],
        [
          "upholsterer",
          "upholsterer"
        ]
      ],
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        "(archaic) An upholder, a dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholsterer; a tradesman who finishes furniture."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈpɒl.stə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈpɐl.stə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "upholdster"
    }
  ],
  "word": "upholster"
}

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