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bookshelvers

bookshelvers is the plural of bookshelver.

Meaning of bookshelver

Noun

bookshelver (plural bookshelvers)

  1. A person who places or arranges books on shelves in a library, etc.
    • As a freshman at U.N.M., she’d had a work-study job as a bookshelver at the medical library—the worst job she’d ever had. It was the terminal quiet that had bugged her; trying to shelve books extra-quietly so as not to disturb anyone’s studying.1995, A[aron] A[lbert] Carr, chapter 40, in Eye Killers (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series; 13), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 182

Questions about bookshelvers

What is bookshelvers the plural of?
Bookshelvers is the plural of bookshelver.

Words near bookshelvers in the dictionary

  1. bookshelf
  2. bookshelf wealth
  3. bookshelve
  4. bookshelved
  5. bookshelver
  6. bookshelvers
  7. bookshelves
  8. bookshelving
  9. bookshop
  10. bookshopkeeper
  11. bookshopkeepers

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