Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small counter where books are sold.
- noun A bookrack.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stand or support to hold books for reading or reference.
- noun A stand or frame for containing books offered for sale on the streets, etc.
- noun A set of shelves for books.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.
- noun A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
stall wherebooks are sold - noun A
rack for holding books; abookrack - noun A
stand , made for holding books open
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Examples
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At home, my books are always on my beloved ReadUpon bookstand (why, oh why did they go out of business ...).
Angels' Blood Countdown: Nancy Haddock - La Vida Vampire Nalini Singh 2009
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But, I suppose much like Zalman and his brother Chaim, who would soon follow, I needed something more concrete so took my mother's suggestion of reading the Bible, which was on our bookstand in the living room next to her copies of The Reader's Digest.
Carol Hoenig: A Mother's Love Versus Her Sons' Religious Demands Carol Hoenig 2010
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But, I suppose much like Zalman and his brother Chaim, who would soon follow, I needed something more concrete so took my mother's suggestion of reading the Bible, which was on our bookstand in the living room next to her copies of The Reader's Digest.
Carol Hoenig: A Mother's Love Versus Her Sons' Religious Demands Carol Hoenig 2010
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By the time I encountered it, at the age of 12 or 13 I recall picking it out of a rotating bookstand, near the door of a bookshop in the Lake District, during one of those rain-sodden childhood holidays, I was already familiar with Clarke as the sober-minded chronicler of near future space exploration.
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But, I suppose much like Zalman and his brother Chaim, who would soon follow, I needed something more concrete so took my mother's suggestion of reading the Bible, which was on our bookstand in the living room next to her copies of The Reader's Digest.
Carol Hoenig: A Mother's Love Versus Her Sons' Religious Demands Carol Hoenig 2010
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But, I suppose much like Zalman and his brother Chaim, who would soon follow, I needed something more concrete so took my mother's suggestion of reading the Bible, which was on our bookstand in the living room next to her copies of The Reader's Digest.
Carol Hoenig: A Mother's Love Versus Her Sons' Religious Demands Carol Hoenig 2010
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The team lost after designing a ropey beach bookstand for those people who can't be bothered to hold a Stieg Larsson paperback.
Call Max Clifford – those Chilean miners need him Barbara Ellen 2010
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But, I suppose much like Zalman and his brother Chaim, who would soon follow, I needed something more concrete so took my mother's suggestion of reading the Bible, which was on our bookstand in the living room next to her copies of The Reader's Digest.
Carol Hoenig: A Mother's Love Versus Her Sons' Religious Demands Carol Hoenig 2010
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Dustin Aksland for The Wall Street Journal On the second floor, a nook off the media room has a round Biedermeyer table with Frank Lloyd Wright barrel chairs and is topped by a spinning bookstand just like Jefferson, who liked to read several books at a time.
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We parted at the bookstand and walked around it, coming together again in front of the open book.
Vanished Kate Brian 2010
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