inland

adj

1. Within the land; relatively remote from the ocean or from open water; interior.

   “an inland town”

   “In this wide Inland ſea, that hight by name / The Idle lake, my wandring ſhip I row, […]”

   “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.”

   “Brutes […] / Ruminate heedleſs of the ſcene outſpread / Beneath, beyond, and ſtretching far away / From inland regions to the diſtant main.”

   “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.”

2. Limited to the land, or to inland routes; not passing on, or over, the sea.

   “inland commerce”

   “inland navigation”

   “inland transportation”

3. Confined to one country or state; domestic; not foreign.

   “an inland bill of exchange”

4. (archaic)Of a sophisticated background, especially as relates to a royal court or national capital.

   “inland bred”

   “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.”

   “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.”

noun

1. The interior part of a country.

   “a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers.”

adv

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

   “The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east.”

   “He heard much that did not interest him—of the journey inland, of the face of the country, the surprising weather, the great work of irrigation and the other impressive wonders of man and nature. These things could be got from books […]”