BOOKCASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bookcase mean? 

• BOOKCASE (noun)
  The noun BOOKCASE has 1 sense:

1. a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books

  Familiarity information: BOOKCASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOKCASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A piece of furniture with shelves for storing books

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bookcase" is a kind of...):

article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)

Meronyms (parts of "bookcase"):

shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)

 Context examples 

“She is there,” said Holmes, and he pointed to a high bookcase in the corner of the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I poked it out, and it ran under the bookcase.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It contained a bookcase: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I can stand it no longer, and I think, I may say, that nothing shall ever tempt me to it again; but one good thing I have just ascertained: it is the very room for a theatre, precisely the shape and length for it; and the doors at the farther end, communicating with each other, as they may be made to do in five minutes, by merely moving the bookcase in my father's room, is the very thing we could have desired, if we had sat down to wish for it; and my father's room will be an excellent greenroom.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It seemed to be all old nooks and corners; and in every nook and corner there was some queer little table, or cupboard, or bookcase, or seat, or something or other, that made me think there was not such another good corner in the room; until I looked at the next one, and found it equal to it, if not better.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At the same instant the bookcase at which Holmes pointed swung round upon a hinge, and a woman rushed out into the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Polly marched straight after it, stooped down and peeped under the bookcase, saying, in his funny way, with a cock of his eye, 'Come out and take a walk, my dear.'

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The removal of the bookcase from before the billiard-room door struck him especially, but he had scarcely more than time to feel astonished at all this, before there were sounds from the billiard-room to astonish him still farther.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Among the rest, she converted the pantry into a dressing-room for me; and purchased and embellished a bedstead for my occupation, which looked as like a bookcase in the daytime as a bedstead could.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Most of the books were locked up behind glass doors; but there was one bookcase left open containing everything that could be needed in the way of elementary works, and several volumes of light literature, poetry, biography, travels, a few romances, &c.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)