doomsday book

1. 1.

   record of a British census and land survey in 1085-1086 ordered by William the Conqueror

   SynonymsDomesday Book

   Broaderwritten record

Questions about doomsday book

What does doomsday book mean?

doomsday book means "record of a British census and land survey in 1085-1086 ordered by William the Conqueror".

What is another word for doomsday book?

Close synonyms include Domesday Book. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is doomsday book a common word?

doomsday book is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.