Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A piece of furniture with shelves for holding books.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A case with shelves for holding books.
- noun In law, a case stated or mentioned in legal works; a recorded case; a precedent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A piece of furniture designed for the storage/display of books.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books
Etymologies
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Examples
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The main bookcase is almost empty, the others contain collapsing stacks of books; in the English bookcase Marina Warner’s Joan of Arc and Naomi Wolf’s Fire with Fire prop up Claire Petulengro’s Love Signs (and I’m not even sure how she got there).
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The main bookcase is almost empty, the others contain collapsing stacks of books; in the English bookcase Marina Warner’s Joan of Arc and Naomi Wolf’s Fire with Fire prop up Claire Petulengro’s Love Signs (and I’m not even sure how she got there).
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A huge bookcase is the centerpiece of the house and the rooms are very spacious. -via Trendir
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The bit of window not covered by bookcase is covered with towels.
Sunday morning giggle ... karenmiller 2009
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That one bookcase is all that is left of what was once about three bookcases worth of Marvel & DC collections.
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And hanging on a coat rack next to the bookcase is Dave's flight suit -- which he can still fit into!
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The great thing about this bookcase is that it looks really cool even closed up and equally as cool when fully expanded.
Square Bookcase 2008
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My bookcase is stuffed with tons and tons of books.
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It was a sucessful trip and the bookcase is now in place in the living room so we could get rid of the shelving unit that was there before, which I was really getting to dislike strongly.
Archive 2007-07-01 katelnorth 2007
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I've got * dozens* of figurines and statues and right now my one bookcase is already full (of books, even), so while I'm really quite in the mood to unpack it all and be properly moved in to the office, I'm utterly stymied by having nowhere to * put* most of the doo-dads.
cats & work tambowrites 2007
kewpid commented on the word bookcase
A great name for a girl. Also sandstorm and hat, except hat is more of a boy's name.
June 21, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word bookcase
Scarlet Bookcase O'Catalogues.
June 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word bookcase
I have a friend called Hat. Really. Even though he flies planes he refuses to change his name to Pilot's Cap. I think identity's always been a problem for Hat. Sometimes his wife calls him Hatstand, which doesn't help.
June 21, 2008