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bookland

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.01 in modern English

Syllables
book-land
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

name

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.

Informal

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

booklands (plural) bocland (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

allodium Bookland

Questions

What does bookland mean?
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.
Where does bookland come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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