inland
Americanadjective
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pertaining to or situated in the interior part of a country or region.
inland cities.
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British. domestic or internal.
inland revenue.
adverb
noun
adjective
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of, concerning, or located in the interior of a country or region away from a sea or border
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operating within a country or region; domestic; not foreign
noun
adverb
Other Word Forms
- inlander noun
Etymology
Origin of inland
Explanation
Inland means far away from the ocean, or in the very middle of a country. If you were born and grew up in Kansas, you're familiar with inland living. The opposite of inland is coastal. When you travel to the rocky coast of Maine or the soft sandy beaches of Florida, you're far from being inland — you return to your inland home town when you fly back to Gary, Indiana. Inland comes from the Old English inn lond, "land around the mansion of an estate," and it began to mean "land far from the coast" in the 16th century.
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Larger than 22,000 football fields, it handles transit each year of around 267 million tonnes of goods and is used by around 20,000 seagoing vessels and 50,000 inland vessels, according to its website.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
He bought his summer cottage “House of Cards” about 17 years ago for $600,000 and since then spent roughly the same amount to move it 75 feet inland.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Farther inland, Riverside, Borrego and Paso Robles also hit record highs for the day of 93, 97 and 89 degrees, respectively.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
This includes several separate strikes on the key Baltic Sea ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk as well as an attack on the nearby inland Kirishi oil refinery.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
“The blue-ringed octopus, the marbled cone snail, the inland taipan snake, and...uh...the deathstalker scorpion.”
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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