Bookcase

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  • noun. A piece of furniture with shelves for holding books.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A case with shelves for holding books.
  • noun. In law, a case stated or mentioned in legal works; a recorded case; a precedent.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A piece of furniture designed for the storage/display of books.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books
    • Word Usage
    "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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    bookshelf  
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    article of furniture  furniture  piece of furniture  
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