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BOOKCASE
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I. (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:
I observed that books were piled on the floor at all other points, but that one bookcase was left clear.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have quite as great an interest in being careful of his house as you can have; and as to such alterations as I was suggesting just now, such as moving a bookcase, or unlocking a door, or even as using the billiard-room for the space of a week without playing at billiards in it, you might just as well suppose he would object to our sitting more in this room, and less in the breakfast-room, than we did before he went away, or to my sister's pianoforte being moved from one side of the room to the other.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I therefore smoked a great number of those excellent cigarettes, and I dropped the ash all over the space in front of the suspected bookcase.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Opposite was a large bookcase, with a marble bust of Athene on the top. In the corner, between the bookcase and the wall, there stood a tall, green safe, the firelight flashing back from the polished brass knobs upon its face.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
