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Inland vs Overland - What's the difference?

inland | overland |

As adjectives the difference between inland and overland

is that inland is within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town while overland is by or across land, especially of travel.

As nouns the difference between inland and overland

is that inland is the interior part of a country. Shakespeareoverland is a trip by land between the UK and the Indian Sub-continent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.

As adverbs the difference between inland and overland

is that inland is into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook while overland is over, across, or by land.

inland

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town.
  • :* This wide inland sea. .
  • :* From inland regions to the distant main. .
  • Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc.
  • Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreign; as, an inland bill of exchange.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • The interior part of a country. Shakespeare

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook .
  • :* The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. .

    • overland

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (travel) a trip by land between the UK and the Indian Sub-continent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • by or across land, especially of travel
  • *1609 , , III.v
  • *:So, sir. I desire of you
  • *:A conduct overland to Milford Haven.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Over, across, or by land.
  • * 1589 , (ed.), Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century , T. Richards (1856), page 317:
    • To prevent this, he practised that none of the Companies servauntes shuld be suffered to goe overland with letters.
  • * 1786 , , reproduced in Charles Ross (ed.), Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis , volume 1, second edition, John Murray (1859), page 247:
    • The packet that was coming to us overland , and that left England in July, was cut off by the wild Arabs between Aleppo and Bussora.
  • * 2008 , , Connecting Histories in Afghanistan , Stanford University Press (2011), ISBN 978-0-8047-7411-6, page 57:
    • It is unclear whether the Peshin sayyid traveled overland' or by ship to Bombay from where he accompanied the goods by sea to Karachi or one of the smaller ports in Sind, then ' overland to Bela, Kelat, Qandahar, Kabul, and Bukhara.