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means The utility room in a basement or building that houses the heating furnace, water heater, and associated equipment, kept out of sight while it keeps everything warm.

from A plain compound of two old words. "Furnace" comes through Old French "fornaise" from Latin "fornax," an oven or kiln, related to "fornus," a brick oven — the same heat-source root that quietly underlies "furnish" only by coincidence, not kinship. "Room" descends from Old English "rūm," meaning space or extent, a cousin of German "Raum." The pairing is a modern domestic label, born with central heating, when houses grew a dedicated chamber for the iron beast that warms them.