John built a bookcase.
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Bookcase
//ˈbʊkˌkeɪs//
Synonyms for "bookcase" (123 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (37)
Related words (61)
hard bindingheadbandholdhutchjacketlibrarylibrary bindinglininglining-uplockerlumber roomlumberyardmagasinmagazinemechanical bindingniggerheadperfect bindingplastic bindingportfoliorack
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14 entriesTranslations
105 translations across 68 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- raft librash noun (furniture displaying books)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πῆγμα noun (furniture displaying books)
Arabic
3 entries- خِزَانَةُ الْكُتُب noun (furniture displaying books)
- مَكْتَبة noun (furniture displaying books)
- مَكْتَبَة noun (furniture displaying books)
Armenian
1 entries- գրապահարան noun (furniture displaying books)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kitab şkafı noun (furniture displaying books)
Basque
1 entries- liburutegi noun (furniture displaying books)
Belarusian
1 entries- кні́жная ша́фа noun (furniture displaying books)
Bengali
1 entries- বইয়ের আলমারি noun (furniture displaying books)
Bulgarian
1 entries- библиоте́ка noun (furniture displaying books)
Catalan
1 entries- prestatgeria noun (furniture displaying books)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 書櫃 /书柜 noun (furniture displaying books)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 書架 /书架 noun (furniture displaying books)
- 書櫃 /书柜 noun (furniture displaying books)
- 書櫥 /书橱 noun (furniture displaying books)
Czech
1 entries- knihovna noun (furniture displaying books)
Danish
2 entries- bogreol noun (furniture displaying books)
- bogskab noun (furniture displaying books)
Dutch
1 entries- boekenkast noun (furniture displaying books)
Esperanto
3 entries- bretaro noun (furniture displaying books)
- librobretaro noun (furniture displaying books)
- libroŝranko noun (furniture displaying books)
Estonian
2 entries- raamatukapp noun (furniture displaying books)
- raamaturiiul noun (furniture displaying books)
Finnish
2 entries- kirjahylly noun (furniture displaying books)
- kirjakaappi noun (furniture displaying books)
French
1 entries- bibliothèque noun (furniture displaying books)
Georgian
2 entries- ბიბლიოთეკა noun (furniture displaying books)
- წიგნის თარო noun (furniture displaying books)
German
1 entries- Bücherregal noun (furniture displaying books)
Greek
1 entries- βιβλιοθήκη noun (furniture displaying books)
Hebrew
1 entries- אֲרוֹן סְפָרִים noun (furniture displaying books)
Hindi
1 entries- किताबों की अलमारी noun (furniture displaying books)
Hungarian
1 entries- könyvszekrény noun (furniture displaying books)
Icelandic
1 entries- bókaskápur noun (furniture displaying books)
Ido
1 entries- biblioteko noun (furniture displaying books)
Indonesian
2 entries- lemari buku noun (furniture displaying books)
- rak buku noun (furniture displaying books)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- قَفَسِهٔ کِتاب noun (furniture displaying books)
Irish
1 entries- leabhragán noun (furniture displaying books)
Italian
1 entries- libreria noun (furniture displaying books)
Japanese
1 entries- 本棚 noun (furniture displaying books)
Kazakh
1 entries- кітап шкафы noun (furniture displaying books)
Khmer
1 entries- ទូសៀវភៅ noun (furniture displaying books)
Korean
1 entries- 책장 noun (furniture displaying books)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- китеп текчеси noun (furniture displaying books)
Lao
4 entries- ຂາກະເຍັຽ noun (furniture displaying books)
- ຕູ້ noun (furniture displaying books)
- ຕູ້ພັບ noun (furniture displaying books)
- ຕູ້ໜັງສື noun (furniture displaying books)
Latin
4 entries- librarium noun (furniture displaying books)
- librarius noun (furniture displaying books)
- pluteus noun (furniture displaying books)
- pēgma noun (furniture displaying books)
Latvian
2 entries- grāmatskapis noun (furniture displaying books)
- grāmatu skapis noun (furniture displaying books)
Lithuanian
1 entries- knygų spinta noun (furniture displaying books)
Lü
1 entries- ᦠᦱᧂᧉᦗᦸᧇ noun (furniture displaying books)
Macedonian
1 entries- библиотека noun (furniture displaying books)
Malay
2 entries- almari buku noun (furniture displaying books)
- rak buku noun (furniture displaying books)
Manx
1 entries- kishtey lioar noun (furniture displaying books)
Mongolian
3 entries- номын тавиур noun (furniture displaying books)
- номын шкаф noun (furniture displaying books)
- номын шуүгээ noun (furniture displaying books)
Navajo
1 entries- naaltsoos biiʼ yistłʼiní noun (furniture displaying books)
Norman
1 entries- bibliothèque noun (furniture displaying books)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bokhylle noun (furniture displaying books)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كتبخانه noun (furniture displaying books)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Buakschaup noun (furniture displaying books)
Polish
3 entries- biblioteczka noun (furniture displaying books)
- biblioteka noun (furniture displaying books)
- regał noun (furniture displaying books)
Portuguese
1 entries- estante noun (furniture displaying books)
Romanian
1 entries- bibliotecă noun (furniture displaying books)
Russian
2 entries- кни́жный шкаф noun (furniture displaying books)
- этаже́рка noun (furniture displaying books)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bibliotéka noun (furniture displaying books)
- polica za knjige noun (furniture displaying books)
- библиоте́ка noun (furniture displaying books)
- полица за књиге noun (furniture displaying books)
Slovak
1 entries- knižnica noun (furniture displaying books)
Slovene
1 entries- knjižna polica noun (furniture displaying books)
Spanish
3 entries- biblioteca noun (furniture displaying books)
- estantería noun (furniture displaying books)
- librero noun (furniture displaying books)
Swedish
2 entries- bokhylla noun (furniture displaying books)
- bokskåp noun (furniture displaying books)
Tajik
2 entries- ҷевони китоб noun (furniture displaying books)
- ҷевони китобмонӣ noun (furniture displaying books)
Thai
2 entries- ชั้นหนังสือ noun (furniture displaying books)
- ตู้หนังสือ noun (furniture displaying books)
Turkish
2 entries- bibliyotek noun (furniture displaying books)
- kitaplık noun (furniture displaying books)
Turkmen
1 entries- kitap şkafy noun (furniture displaying books)
Ukrainian
1 entries- книжко́ва ша́фа noun (furniture displaying books)
Urdu
1 entries- کِتابوں کی اَلْماری noun (furniture displaying books)
Uyghur
1 entries- كىتاب ئىشكاپى noun (furniture displaying books)
Uzbek
2 entries- kitob javoni noun (furniture displaying books)
- kitob şkafi noun (furniture displaying books)
Vietnamese
2 entries- kệ sách noun (furniture displaying books)
- tủ sách noun (furniture displaying books)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
This bookcase is easy to assemble.
Source: tatoeba (56798)
My bookcase is deep enough to take large dictionaries.
Source: tatoeba (251889)
I have read every book in my father's bookcase.
Source: tatoeba (261554)
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