name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 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. historical

Proper Noun

1. 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. informal

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From book + -land.

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