inland

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   towards or into the interior of a region

   the town is five miles inland

2. 2
   adj

   situated away from an area's coast or border

   The road turned inland before it reached the coast.

Appears in

From Middle English inland, inlond, from Old English inland, equivalent to in- + land. Compare West Frisian ynlân (“inland”), German Inland (“inland”), Danish indland (“inland”), Swedish inland (“inland”), Norwegian innland (“inland”). Compare also Dutch binnenland.

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