Usually means: Storage surfaces for holding items.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word shelves:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. shelves: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shelves: Merriam-Webster
  3. shelves: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shelves: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shelves: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shelves: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shelves, shelves: Wordnik
  8. shelves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shelves: Wiktionary
  10. shelves: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shelves: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shelves: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shelves: Dictionary.com
  14. shelves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shelves: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. Shelves: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. shelves: FreeDictionary.org
  18. shelves: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shelves: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shelves: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shelves: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shelves: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shelves: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shelf as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects.
noun:  The capacity of such an object
noun:  A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
noun:  (computing) The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.
noun:  A reef, sandbar, or shoal.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1228).
noun:  A hamlet in Coychurch Lower community, Bridgend county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9380).
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