Word Meanings - BOOKSHELF - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A shelf to hold books.
Related words: (words related to BOOKSHELF)
- BOOKSELLING
The employment of selling books. - BOOKSTAND
1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference. - SHELF
A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament. 2. A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships. On the tawny - BOOKSHOP
A bookseller's shop. - SHELFY
1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast." Dryden. 2. Full of strata of rock. The tillable fields are in some places . . . so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. Carew. - BOOKSHELF
A shelf to hold books. - BOOKSELLER
One who sells books. - BOOKSTORE
A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop. - BOOKSTALL
A stall or stand where books are sold. - MANTELSHELF
The shelf of a mantel.