inland

Meanings

Adjective

• Within the land; relatively remote from the ocean or from open water; interior.
• Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea
• Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreign.

Noun

• The interior part of a country.

Adverb

• Into, or towards, the interior of the land, away from the coast.

Origin

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