inland
inland is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreing; as, an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange.
- 3.The interior part of a country. Shak.
- 4.Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook. The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. S. Turner.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abdomen
- abdominal
- backbone
- belly
- bosom
- breast
- cave
- center
- circumscribe
- coeliac
- concavity
- contents
- deep
- domestic
- endemic
- entrails
- family
- gut
- heart
- here
- home
- imbed
- inclose
- indoor
- inly
- inmost
- inner
- innermost
- insert
- inside
- interior
- interiority
- interjacent
- intern
- internal
- internally
- interspace
- interstitial
- intestinal
- intestine
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is inland.
- What is 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 called?
- What is confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreing; as, an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange called?
- What is into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook. The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. S. Turner called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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