inland
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnlənd/
ipa: /-lænd/
ipa: /ˈɪnˌland/
rhymes: -ɪnlənd
rhymes: -ɪnlænd
Forms: form: more inland
form: most inland
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.
Senses: examples: text: an inland town
text: In this wide Inland ſea, that hight by name / The Idle lake, my wandring ſhip I row, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10, page 259:
text: 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.
ref: 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]:
text: Brutes […] / Ruminate heedleſs of the ſcene outſpread / Beneath, beyond, and ſtretching far away / From inland regions to the diſtant main.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, “Book V. The Winter Morning Walk.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 221:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
antonyms: coastal
seaside
glosses: Within the land; relatively remote from the ocean or from open water; interior.
examples: text: inland commerce
text: inland navigation
text: inland transportation
glosses: Limited to the land, or to inland routes; not passing on, or over, the sea.
examples: text: an inland bill of exchange
glosses: Confined to one country or state; domestic; not foreign.
examples: text: inland bred
text: 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.
ref: 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]:
text: 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.
ref: 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]:
glosses: Of a sophisticated background, especially as relates to a royal court or national capital.
Derived terms: inland hairstreak
inland revenue
inland sea
inland snake-eyed skink
inland taipan