Inland

Pronunciation

Full definition of inland

Adjective

1. Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town.
• This wide inland sea. Edmund Spenser.
• From inland regions to the distant main. William Cowper.
2. Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc.
3. Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreign; as, an inland bill of exchange.

Noun

1. The interior part of a country. Shakespeare

Adverb

1. Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook.
• The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. Sharon Turner.