# inland
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪnlənd/, /-lænd/
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* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɪnˌland/
* Rhymes: -ɪnlənd, -ɪnlænd

### Adjective

inland (comparative more inland, superlative most inland)
* Within the land; relatively remote from the ocean or from open water; interior.
    Antonyms: coastal, seaside
    an inland town
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10, page 259:In this wide Inland ſea, that hight by name / The Idle lake, my wandring ſhip I row, […]
** c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Unto the king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters.
** 1785, William Cowper, “Book V. The Winter Morning Walk.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 221:Brutes […] / Ruminate heedleſs of the ſcene outſpread / Beneath, beyond, and ſtretching far away / From inland regions to the diſtant main.
** 1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, “The Nursery of the Craft”, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC, pages 254–255:Happy he who, like Ulysses, has made an adventurous voyage; and there is no such sea for adventurous voyages as the Mediterranean—the inland sea which the ancients looked upon as so vast and so full of wonders.
* Limited to the land, or to inland routes; not passing on, or over, the sea.
    inland commerce
    inland navigation
    inland transportation
* Confined to one country or state; domestic; not foreign.
    an inland bill of exchange
* (archaic) Of a sophisticated background, especially as relates to a royal court or national capital.
    inland bred
** c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:You touch'd my vein at first: the thorny point of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred, and know some nurture.
** c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:I have been told so of many; but indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love.

#### Derived terms

* inland hairstreak
* inland revenue
* inland sea
* inland snake-eyed skink
* inland taipan

#### Translations
### Noun

inland (plural inlands)
* The interior part of a country.
** 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers.

#### Derived terms

* inlander
* inlandish

#### Translations
### Adverb

inland (comparative more inland, superlative most inland)
* Into, or towards, the interior of the land, away from the coast.
** 1836, Sharon Turner, The History of England […] :The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east.

#### Translations
### References

* “inland”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Landin, Niland, landin'