overland

¹

[oh-ver-land, -luhnd]

adverb

1. by land; on terrain.

   to travel overland rather than by sea.

2. over or across the land.

   a road that winds overland.

adjective

1. proceeding, performed, or carried on overland.

   the overland route to the West.

Overland

²

[oh-ver-luhnd]

noun

1. a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.

overland

/ ˈəʊvəˌlænd /

adjective

1. over or across land

verb

1. history to drive (cattle or sheep) overland

Other Word Forms

• overlander noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of overland¹

First recorded in 1325–75, overland is from the Middle English word overlond. See over-, land

Example Sentences

Because he lacked identity documents, he traveled back to Colombia overland.

From Los Angeles Times

There was an overland route from St. Louis and Memphis, Tenn., to San Francisco that required a roughly 22-day journey by horse-drawn stagecoach.

From Los Angeles Times

They found that the Martian valleys' branching angles "are more similar to terrestrial valley networks incised by overland flow, than valley networks incised by re-emerging groundwater flow."

From Salon

Americans, in the meantime, kept poking at nominally Spanish California from the sea and overland, looking for weak points and deploring what they and Europeans thought were wasted possibilities in California’s under-exploited amenities.

From Los Angeles Times

She and her partner said they arrived in Mexico City last week after a two-month overland trek.

From Los Angeles Times