bookland
see also: Bookland
Noun

bookland (plural booklands)

  1. (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
Proper noun
  1. (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.



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