Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bookcase
IPA transcription: [b'ʊkk,eɪs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: bookcase
    Meaning: a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books
Usage examples
  • So the bookcase was closed again.
  • A little red bookcase inside the church was the attraction.
  • There was a bookcase of bluebooks, books of reference and suchlike material, and some files.
  • Bruno took a very small book out of the bookcase, opened it, and shook it in imitation of the Professor.
  • The bookcase proper rested upon this projecting cupboard, thus raising the books above the level of the furniture.
  • In the days when furniture was defined as "that which may be carried about," the natural bookcase was a chest with a strong lock.
  • One day when the boy was about fifteen, Fyodor Pavlovitch noticed him lingering by the bookcase, and reading the titles through the glass.
  • She had found that no key barred her way into this little red treasure-house of a bookcase, and a board propped against the wall under the window outside gave her an easy entrance into the church.
  • To be decorative, a bookcase need not contain the productions of the master-binders,--old volumes by Eve and Derome, or the work of Roger Payne and Sanderson,--unsurpassed as they are in color-value.
  • Architects are beginning to rediscover the forgotten fact that the stud of a room should be regulated by the dimensions of its floor-space; so that in the newer houses the dwarf bookcase is no longer a necessity.