Inland Meaning
/ˈɪnlənd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjWithin the land; relatively remote from the ocean or from open water; interior.
adjLimited to the land, or to inland routes; not passing on, or over, the sea.
Sentence Examples
Almost every night clouds develop over the ocean and move inland.
Chinese coastal cities are generally more developed than the inland ones.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The village is located in a deep ____ valley, far from any coast.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Most of the country's major cities are located along the coast rather than further ____.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English inland, inlond, from Old English inland, equivalent to in- + land. Compare West Frisian ynlân (“inland”), German Inland (“inland”), Danish indland (“inland”), Swedish inland (“inland”), Norwegian innland (“inland”). Compare also Dutch binnenland.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"In this wide Inland ſea, that hight by name / The Idle lake, my wandring ſhip I row, […]"
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10, page 259:
"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."
— c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
"Brutes […] / Ruminate heedleſs of the ſcene outſpread / Beneath, beyond, and ſtretching far away / From inland regions to the diſtant main."
— 1785, William Cowper, “Book V. The Winter Morning Walk.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 221:
"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."
— 1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, “The Nursery of the Craft”, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC, pages 254–255:
"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."
— c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The village is located in a deep ____ valley, far from any coast.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Most of the country's major cities are located along the coast rather than further ____.