inland

[ adjective in-luhnd; adverb noun in-land, -luhnd ]

adjective

1. pertaining to or situated in the interior part of a country or region:

   inland cities.

2. British. domestic or internal:

   inland revenue.

adverb

1. in or toward the interior of a country.

noun

1. the interior part of a country.

inland

adjective

1. of, concerning, or located in the interior of a country or region away from a sea or border
2. operating within a country or region; domestic; not foreign

noun

1. the interior of a country or region

adverb

1. towards or into the interior of a country or region

Derived Forms

• ˈinlander, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of inland¹

before 950; Middle English, Old English; in- ¹, land

Example Sentences

Once the shoreline of a great inland sea, the sandstone here is roughly 320 million years old and reaches four miles below the surface.

From Washington Post

That probably means we’ll have to rethink the system, rip infrastructure out of the ground and move it inland where it’s safe from waves.

From Voice of San Diego

The situation is worse in southwestern and inland northwestern states.

From Popular-Science

The Abenaki people, who have migrated between this coast and inland Maine for thousands of years, share their continuing story at the Abbe Museum, which has a location both inside and outside the park.

From Outside Online

Conservationists are also worried about Pakistan’s inland waterways project, under which the Indus is to be developed for goods transportation by giant vessels.

From Ozy

To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.

From The Daily Beast

Another ship, the Eduard Bohlen, currently rests half-buried inland after crashing in 1909.

From The Daily Beast

They scrambled onto boats to Lebanon, Jordan or Gaza, or raced inland.

From The Daily Beast

Follow that borderline inland for a couple hundred kilometers and what do you hit?

From The Daily Beast

Now dense settlements crowd coastlines, and inland areas are no longer empty.

From The Daily Beast

Thus four thousand Indians at most roam through, rather than occupy, these vast stretches of inland territory and sea-shore.

From Project Gutenberg

This was bordered by salt marshes only, covered occasionally at spring tides by the sea, some of which extended pretty far inland.

From Project Gutenberg

The tidal rivers mentioned previously are actually estuaries of Chesapeake Bay and they flow periodically inland.

From Project Gutenberg

Dead ground; defiladed from inland batteries; deep water right close to the shore!

From Project Gutenberg

Deedes also met me and the whole band of us made our way inland to my battle dugout.

From Project Gutenberg