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.