adverb, adjective
adverb in a direction towards the middle of a country; away from the coast:
The town lies a few kilometres inland. * We travelled further inland the next day. * At this point, the coast road turns inland for several miles. * They were too far inland to hear the sea.
adjective [usuallybeforenoun] situated in or near the middle of a country, not near the edge or on the coast:
inland areas / towns / waterways * inland seas / lakes * Business is booming in both inland and coastal resorts.
compareCOASTAL
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for inland is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does inland appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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