bookcase
bookcase
Definition
book·case (-kās′)
noun
a set of shelves or a cabinet for holding books
bookcase
Synonyms
bookcase
Usage Examples
Possessives
- child: Their size makes them far too big to fit into a school bag or into a child's bookcase at home.
Converse of object
- well-stock: We have a well-stocked bookcase where you are welcome to exchange or borrow books.
- fill: The walls on either side were lined with bookcases filled to the brim.
- stock: There were closets for clothes and a large bookcase stocked with improving reading.
- have: The bottom of each banner has a bookcase with the words ' LIFE LONG LEARNING ' on it.
- make: Two volunteer carpenters have made a portable bookcase for storing our Bible files.
- move: An excellent set coped with doors banging, noises off, and moving bookcases without so much of a ripple of the walls.
Adjective modifier
- tall: Turning the corner you come to a tall bookcase crammed with books.
- wooden: Fitted wooden bookcase to one side with encased radiators below.
- large: Opposite was a large bookcase, with a marble bust of Athene on the top.
- small: The small bookcase is £ 249; the tall version £ 349.
- glass-fronted: That glass-fronted bookcase is going to need an extension.
- open: We were enchanted by this refined pair of open bookcases in the drawing room at Erddig.
Preposition: with
- shelf: The owner has just installed most impressive floor to ceiling bookcases with adjustable shelves, Walnut finish and connection for a flat screen television.
Noun used with modifier
- bureau: A Victorian mahogany cylinder bureau bookcase realized a price of £ 1,550 against an estimate of £ 800-£1000.
- oak: An oak bookcase that held the library of Scott's Terra Nova was also given.
- pine: The dining area has a farmhouse dining table with 6 chairs and a pine bookcase.
- library: We also quite often come across antiques - for example we recently sold a library bookcase from a Welsh hospital for £ 7,000.
- secretaire: The Library contains a huge mahogany double secretaire bookcase and a walnut veneered oak collector's cabinet.
- mahogany: A Victorian mahogany cylinder bureau bookcase realized a price of £ 1,550 against an estimate of £ 800-£1000.
Browse dictionary entries near bookcase
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- bookend
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- booking
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- bookmaker
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