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bookland

bookland noun: in Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from all fief, fee, service, and fines. It was held chiefly by the nobility and denominated freeholders.

Noun

bookland (plural booklands)

  1. (historical) In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from all fief, fee, service, and fines. It was held chiefly by the nobility and denominated freeholders.

Proper noun capitalized: Bookland

Bookland

  1. (informal) The factitious country associated with a numeric country prefix allocated in the 1980s for European Article Number identifiers of published books, regardless of country of origin.

Forms of bookland

pluralbooklands
alternative formbocland

Origin of bookland

From Middle English bocland, boclond, from Old English bōcland. By surface analysis, book + -land.

From book + -land.

Questions about bookland

What does bookland mean?
Bookland means in Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from all fief, fee, service, and fines. It was held chiefly by the nobility and denominated freeholders.
What part of speech is bookland?
Bookland can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of bookland?
The plural of bookland is booklands.

Words near bookland in the dictionary

  1. bookkeeping machine
  2. bookkeeping machines
  3. bookkeepings
  4. bookkeeps
  5. bookkept
  6. bookland
  7. booklands
  8. booklear
  9. booklearning
  10. booklegger
  11. bookleggers

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