bookshelf
BUUK-shelf/ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/
Pluralbookshelves
- 1A board or set of boards used to store and display books so they remain upright and easy to see and reach.
He built a wooden bookshelf to hold his growing collection of novels.
The library's tall bookshelves stretched from the floor to the ceiling.
Note
The compound is as plain as it looks, book plus shelf, and it inherits shelf's irregular plural: one bookshelf, several bookshelves. In furniture talk it stretches from a single board to a whole stand of them. And what sits there is meant to be seen: William Blades, in The Enemies of Books (1902), teases a collector who rebound his folios and quartos to one size so they would look even on his bookshelves.
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Origin
Formed by combining the words "book" and "shelf".