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inland
[ adjective in-luhnd; adverb noun in-land, -luhnd ]
adjective
- pertaining to or situated in the interior part of a country or region:
inland cities.
- British. domestic or internal:
inland revenue.
adverb
- in or toward the interior of a country.
noun
- the interior part of a country.
inland
adjective
- of, concerning, or located in the interior of a country or region away from a sea or border
- operating within a country or region; domestic; not foreign
noun
- the interior of a country or region
adverb
- towards or into the interior of a country or region
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Derived Forms
- ˈinlander, noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.
Another ship, the Eduard Bohlen, currently rests half-buried inland after crashing in 1909.
They scrambled onto boats to Lebanon, Jordan or Gaza, or raced inland.
Follow that borderline inland for a couple hundred kilometers and what do you hit?
Now dense settlements crowd coastlines, and inland areas are no longer empty.
Thus four thousand Indians at most roam through, rather than occupy, these vast stretches of inland territory and sea-shore.
This was bordered by salt marshes only, covered occasionally at spring tides by the sea, some of which extended pretty far inland.
The tidal rivers mentioned previously are actually estuaries of Chesapeake Bay and they flow periodically inland.
Dead ground; defiladed from inland batteries; deep water right close to the shore!
Deedes also met me and the whole band of us made our way inland to my battle dugout.
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