bookshelf

[ book-shelf ]

noun

, plural book·shelves.

1. a shelf for holding books, especially one of several shelves in a bookcase.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bookshelf¹

First recorded in 1810–20; book + shelf

Example Sentences

Most notable was a bottle of Sweet Baby Ray’s tucked away on a bookshelf, a reference to perhaps the earliest example of Zuckerberg’s attempt to relate to his fellow human male.

From Slate

A bookshelf displays baseballs bearing the signatures of baseball luminaries, including Valenzuela and Rickey Henderson — the future Hall of Famer who, before his major league debut, led Los Mayos to their first championship in 1978-79.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms Murray told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it had been hard campaigning but "having your child’s ashes on a bookshelf is a good motivator".

From BBC

Over a soundtrack of drab violins, Adams taught concerned guardians how to “IN-spect what you EX-pect,” explaining that a gun could be hidden in a jewelry box or a pillow, a used crack pipe in a “popular knapsack,” bullets behind a picture frame, weed inside a baby doll, and cocaine on a bookshelf.

From Slate

“The Outrun” sat on his bookshelf until the pandemic lockdown, when he devoured it in two days.

From Los Angeles Times