English Explanatory Dictionary

bookland

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
name
  1. 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.

Word forms

bookland booklands bocland

Etymology

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

Related words

allodium Bookland
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