bookshelf
noun/ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/
Etymology From book + shelf.
1
Furniture, Lifestyle A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.
- Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.1902, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, 2nd edition, page 102:
- Derived terms
- bookshelf wealth, bookshelve, bookshelved, bookshelver, bookshelving