Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

folkland

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
folk-land
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Land held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion.

British usage; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Old English folcland. By surface analysis, folk + land.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

folklands (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

bookland

Questions

What does folkland mean?
Land held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion.
Where does folkland come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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