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book-case

book-case is the archaic form of bookcase.

Meaning of bookcase

Noun

bookcase (plural bookcases)

  1. A piece of furniture for the storage and display of books.
    Synonyms:
    bookpress

Forms of book-case

pluralbook-cases

Questions about book-case

What is book-case the archaic form of?
Book-case is the archaic form of bookcase.

Words near book-case in the dictionary

  1. book-buildings
  2. book-burner
  3. book-burners
  4. book-burning
  5. book-burnings
  6. book-case
  7. book-cases
  8. book-cloth
  9. book-cloths
  10. book-crab
  11. book-crabs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: book-case (page history and authors); bookcase (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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