bookshelf

1. 1.

   a shelf on which to keep books

   Broadershelf

Other forms of bookshelf

plural

bookshelves

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bookshelf

What does bookshelf mean?

bookshelf means "a shelf on which to keep books".

How many syllables are in bookshelf?

bookshelf has 2 syllables: book-shelf. The stress falls on "book". In IPA it is /ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/.

Is bookshelf a common word?

bookshelf is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.