inland
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2.7
- adverb
- /ˈɪnˌlænd/
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tierra adentro
- All the traffic will have to be moved inland.
- far inland
- move inland
- kilometers inland
And so they could raid far inland with these ships.
- And so they could raid far inland with these ships.
- But what also happened is that the rainfall patterns changed completely inland, the summer rainfall.
- This perhaps kicksotic adventure of going further inland to try to find this water source.
- But the issue is pushing out inland.
- We tried to get some, but there are a few patches inland where mimmulus does occur.
- They're down in this sort of Palm Beach area, but inland from that.
- If you need to build new houses inland because your coastlines are eroding, how much money do you have left for breeding new crops?
- But but then go inland and you have the extreme weather and you have the fires and you have, I mean the, the world is you and I know it.
- So it costs more to to get it from there straight inland and eat it pretty much straight away.
- We're not going to have a we're so far inland, you know, what do you mean that evacuate?
Examples
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The next day, he marched inland at the head of his own caravan.
Fiction book (1994) -
The last half of the trip was forty miles directly inland on the two-lane military highway.
Fiction book (1991) -
So it costs more to to get it from there straight inland and eat it pretty much straight away.
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The disease would then spread along inland transportation networks.
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And so they could raid far inland with these ships.
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The fog is moving inland... away from the beach... towards Antonio Bay.
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To transport cargo and passengers inland, the rivers were the early highways.
Academic text (2012) -
The waters reached as far inland as the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys.
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I didn't think they'd be this far inland.
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Residents are encouraged to move inland to avoid the storm's impact on the coast.
Synonyms
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6.7
Towards the inland parts of a country away from the coast or big cities
Toward the land and away from the sea
Antonyms
Compounds
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5.8
The former British government department that collected major direct taxes like income tax and corporation tax
A protected water route along the coast of southeastern Alaska used by ships and boats
A sea between Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu in southern Japan with many small islands
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Etymology
The word inland comes from in- meaning 'into' and land meaning 'land'. So to go inland is to move 'into the land', away from the coast toward the middle of a country.