bookland English

Meaning bookland meaning

What does bookland mean?

bookland noun

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

Bookland properNoun

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