Meaning

Within the land; relatively remote from the ocean or from open water; interior..

Definitions by Sense

1. Within the land; relatively remote from the ocean or from open water; interior.
2. Limited to the land, or to inland routes; not passing on, or over, the sea.
3. Confined to one country or state; domestic; not foreign.
4. (archaic) Of a sophisticated background, especially as relates to a royal court or national capital.
5. The interior part of a country.
6. Into, or towards, the interior of the land, away from the coast.

Example Sentences

an inland town

In this wide Inland ſea, that hight by name / The Idle lake, my wandring ſhip I row, […]

So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Unto the king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters.

Brutes […] / Ruminate heedleſs of the ſcene outſpread / Beneath, beyond, and ſtretching far away / From inland regions to the diſtant main.

Happy he who, like Ulysses, has made an adventurous voyage; and there is no such sea for adventurous voyages as the Mediterranean—the inland sea which the ancients looked upon as so vast and so full of wonders.

inland commerce

inland navigation

inland transportation

Word Forms

• more inland
• most inland
• inlands

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When Should You Use Inland?

Use inland when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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