noun
Meaning 1
A piece of furniture for the storage and display of books.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bookpress
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bookcase
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbʊkˌkeɪs/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈbʊʔk̚keɪs]
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noun
Meaning 2
a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: furniture, piece of furniture, article of furniture
History
Etymology
From book + case.
Across languages
Translations
105 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: raft librash — furniture displaying books
- Arabic: مَكْتَبَة (maktaba) — furniture displaying books
- Arabic: خِزَانَةُ الْكُتُب (ḵizānatu l-kutub) — furniture displaying books
- Arabic: مَكْتَبة (maktaba) — furniture displaying books
- Armenian: գրապահարան (grapaharan) — furniture displaying books
- Azerbaijani: kitab şkafı — furniture displaying books
- Basque: liburutegi — furniture displaying books
- Belarusian: кні́жная ша́фа (knížnaja šáfa) — furniture displaying books
- Bengali: বইয়ের আলমারি (boiẏer almari) — furniture displaying books
- Bulgarian: библиоте́ка (bibliotéka) — furniture displaying books
- Catalan: prestatgeria — furniture displaying books
- Chinese Cantonese: 書櫃 /书柜 (syu1 gwai6) — furniture displaying books
- Chinese Mandarin: 書架 /书架 (shūjià) — furniture displaying books
- Chinese Mandarin: 書櫥 /书橱 (shūchú) — furniture displaying books
- Chinese Mandarin: 書櫃 /书柜 (shūguì) — furniture displaying books
- Czech: knihovna — furniture displaying books
- Danish: bogreol — furniture displaying books
- Danish: bogskab — furniture displaying books
- Dutch: boekenkast — furniture displaying books
- Esperanto: libroŝranko — furniture displaying books
- Esperanto: librobretaro — furniture displaying books
- Esperanto: bretaro — furniture displaying books
- Estonian: raamatukapp — furniture displaying books
- Estonian: raamaturiiul — furniture displaying books
- Finnish: kirjakaappi — furniture displaying books
- Finnish: kirjahylly — furniture displaying books
- French: bibliothèque — furniture displaying books
- Georgian: ბიბლიოთეკა (biblioteḳa) — furniture displaying books
- Georgian: წიგნის თარო (c̣ignis taro) — furniture displaying books
- German: Bücherregal — furniture displaying books
- Greek: βιβλιοθήκη (vivliothíki) — furniture displaying books
- Ancient Greek: πῆγμα (pêgma) — furniture displaying books
- Hebrew: אֲרוֹן סְפָרִים (arón s'farím) — furniture displaying books
- Hindi: किताबों की अलमारी (kitābõ kī almārī) — furniture displaying books
- Hungarian: könyvszekrény — furniture displaying books
- Icelandic: bókaskápur — furniture displaying books
- Ido: biblioteko — furniture displaying books
- Indonesian: rak buku — furniture displaying books
- Indonesian: lemari buku — furniture displaying books
- Irish: leabhragán — furniture displaying books
- Italian: libreria — furniture displaying books
- Japanese: 本棚 (hondana) — furniture displaying books
- Kazakh: кітап шкафы (kıtap şkafy) — furniture displaying books
- Khmer: ទូសៀវភៅ (tuu siəwphɨw) — furniture displaying books
- Korean: 책장 (chaekjang) — furniture displaying books
- Kyrgyz: китеп текчеси (kitep tekcesi) — furniture displaying books
- Lao: ຕູ້ຫນັງສື (tū nang sư̄) — furniture displaying books
- Lao: ຕູ້ພັບ (tū phap) — furniture displaying books
- Lao: ຮ້ານ (hān) — furniture displaying books
- Lao: ຫິ້ງ (hing) — furniture displaying books
- Lao: ຕູ້ (tū) — furniture displaying books
- Lao: ຂາກະເຍັຽ (khā ka nyīa) — furniture displaying books
- Latin: librarium — furniture displaying books
- Latin: librarius — furniture displaying books
- Latin: pluteus — furniture displaying books
- Latin: pēgma — furniture displaying books
- Latvian: grāmatu skapis — furniture displaying books
- Latvian: grāmatskapis — furniture displaying books
- Lithuanian: knygų spinta — furniture displaying books
- Lü: ᦠᦱᧂᧉᦗᦸᧇ (ḣaang2poab) — furniture displaying books
- Macedonian: библиотека (biblioteka) — furniture displaying books
- Malay: rak buku — furniture displaying books
- Malay: almari buku — furniture displaying books
- Manx: kishtey lioar — furniture displaying books
- Mongolian: номын тавиур (nomyn taviur) — furniture displaying books
- Mongolian: номын шуүгээ (nomyn šuügee) — furniture displaying books
- Mongolian: номын шкаф (nomyn škaf) — furniture displaying books
- Navajo: naaltsoos biiʼ yistłʼiní — furniture displaying books
- Norman: bibliothèque — furniture displaying books
- Norwegian Bokmål: bokhylle — furniture displaying books
- Iranian Persian: قَفَسِهٔ کِتاب (ġafase-ye ketâb) — furniture displaying books
- Plautdietsch: Buakschaup — furniture displaying books
- Polish: biblioteczka — furniture displaying books
- Polish: biblioteka — furniture displaying books
- Polish: regał — furniture displaying books
- Portuguese: estante — furniture displaying books
- Romanian: bibliotecă — furniture displaying books
- Russian: кни́жный шкаф (knížnyj škaf) — furniture displaying books
- Russian: этаже́рка (etažérka) — furniture displaying books
- Serbo-Croatian: библиоте́ка — furniture displaying books
- Serbo-Croatian: полица за књиге — furniture displaying books
- Serbo-Croatian: bibliotéka — furniture displaying books
- Serbo-Croatian: polica za knjige — furniture displaying books
- Slovak: knižnica — furniture displaying books
- Slovene: knjižna polica — furniture displaying books
- Spanish: estantería — furniture displaying books
- Spanish: librero — furniture displaying books
- Spanish: biblioteca — furniture displaying books
- Swedish: bokhylla — furniture displaying books
- Swedish: bokskåp — furniture displaying books
- Tajik: ҷевони китобмонӣ (jevon-i kitobmoni) — furniture displaying books
- Tajik: ҷевони китоб (jevon-i kitob) — furniture displaying books
- Thai: ตู้หนังสือ (dtûu-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ) — furniture displaying books
- Thai: ชั้นหนังสือ (chán-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ) — furniture displaying books
- Turkish: kitaplık — furniture displaying books
- Turkish: bibliyotek — furniture displaying books
- Ottoman Turkish: كتبخانه (kütübhâne) — furniture displaying books
- Turkmen: kitap şkafy — furniture displaying books
- Ukrainian: книжко́ва ша́фа (knyžkóva šáfa) — furniture displaying books
- Urdu: کِتابوں کی اَلْماری (kitābõ kī almārī) — furniture displaying books
- Uyghur: كىتاب ئىشكاپى (kitab ishkapi) — furniture displaying books
- Uzbek: kitob javoni — furniture displaying books
- Uzbek: kitob şkafi — furniture displaying books
- Vietnamese: tủ sách — furniture displaying books
- Vietnamese: kệ sách — furniture displaying books