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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: 1. Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. ''This wide inland sea.'' --Spenser. From inland regions to the distant main. --Cowper. 2. 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. 3. Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreign; as, an inland bill of exchange. See {Exchange}. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Inland \In"land\, noun The interior part of a country. --Shak. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Inland \In"land\, adverb Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. --Cook. The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. --S. Turner. From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: adjective 1: situated away from an area's coast or border [ant: {coastal}] adverb 1: towards or into the interior of a region; "the town is five miles inland" From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 19 Moby Thesaurus words for "inland": heartland, hinterland, home, inlands, inshore, interior, internal, intestine, inward, inwardly, inwards, mediterranean, midland, midlands, municipal, national, native, up-country, withinwards
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