bookland

noun

Etymology

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

In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from all fief, fee,…
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.
The factitious country associated with a numeric country prefix allocated in the 1980s…
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.

No curated loop yet for bookland. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA