inlandn.adj.adv.
/ˈɪnland/, /ˈɪnlənd/, U.S. /ˈɪnˌlænd/, /ˈɪnlənd/ (in sense C. also)Brit. /ɪnˈland/ A. n.
1. The inner part of an estate, feudal manor, or farm.† a. In Old English and feudal tenure, the land around the mansion occupied by the owner or cultivated for his use, not held by any tenant (cf. demesne n. 3).
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > a feudal holding or fief > land retained by lord
inland904
demesne1398
demesne landsa1500
domain1601
904 in Earle Land Charters (1888) 161 All ðæt inn lond beligeð an dic utane.
c1000 Laws of Edgar ii. c. 1 Ægðer ge of þegenes in-lande ge of geneat-lande.
1235–52 in C. J. Elton Rentalia et Custumaria (1891) (Som. Rec. Soc.) 134 Idem Persona habet de la Inland iiijor acras terre.
1437 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 324 [Thomas Billyngdon quitted..all right to any common in the pasture or] ‘inlandys’ [of the said Edmund].
1845 J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus III. Pref. p. xl The house and inland; all, in short, that is surrounded and bounded by a hedge or fence.
b. Scottish. Land cultivated as infield: = infield land at infield n. 1b.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > outlying or inlying land
inland1473
outfield1542
infield1733
home ground1750
back forty1936
1473 Acta Audit. (1839) 24 He sall haue..vj acris of corne land of Inland, and ij acris of medow at þe side.
2. singular and plural. The interior part of a country, the parts remote from the sea or the borders. †Formerly, also, the inlying districts near the capital and centres of population, as opposed to the remote or outlying wild parts; in Scottish use, also, the mainland as distinct from the outlying isles; = in-country n.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > interior land > [noun]
in-country1565
inland1573
upland1579
interior1796
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > interior or civilized part
in-country1565
inland1573
inner-land1613
outside1827
upcountry1837
1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 158 To God thay ar als deir As ony in the inland heir.
1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 173 That as weill thay of Mynnie Gof..As..the burghis and Inlandis men.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ii. 39 (margin) Sea costes more of old tyme inhabyted then the inlands.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. iv. 437/2 Those Flemmings..were now by the King..remoued into Wales..to disburden his Inland of such guests.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 142 They of those Marches..Shall be a Wall sufficient to defend Our in-land from the pilfering Borderers. View more context for this quotation
1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours iv. xxxviii. 362 Others that have travailed through the inland of India, doe make no mention of any such creature.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 423 The rest were all Farr to the in land retir'd, about the walls Of Pandæmonium. View more context for this quotation
1749 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage II. 236 The Inland appears to consist of a brown barren Rock.
1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni iv. viii The rich inlands of the island.
1913 L. V. Kelly Range Men 71 Canny men and good traders, built posts in the great inland.
1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. iii. 29 The camel..will long continue to be in many parts, the great utility animal of the Inland.
1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xxxi. 235 New cities, new industries, and a great, far-spread population in our inland, where population is needed so urgently.
1969 ‘A. Garve’ Boomerang ii. 39 Our inland is still very empty country, and a lot of it isn't easily accessible.
1973 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. (Suppl.) 1/1 He enjoys studying the unique wildlife of the inland, and..the people who live and work there.
B. adj. (attributive use of the noun: hence formerly sometimes hyphenated to the following word).
1. † b. Having the refinement characteristic of the inlying districts of a country. Obsolete.
a. Of or pertaining to the interior part of a country or region; remote from the sea or the border. inland ice n. (also inland ice sheet) the ice which forms a permanent cover or ice-cap over most of Greenland; the region over which this ice extends. Hence, more widely, any mass of ice of comparable extent and thickness underlain by rock. inland sea n. (a) a large body of salt water, entirely or nearly severed from the ocean: applied also to large lakes; (b) (see quot. 1891).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [adjective] > interior part
inland1557
inlanded1612
inward1635
upcountry1810
inlandish1849
the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > large lake or inland sea
seac893
inland sea1590
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > other spec.
inland sea1590
the world > the earth > water > ice > land ice > [noun] > ice-cap or polar ice
inland ice1853
polar cap1863
ice cap1865
calotte1894
1557 Queen Mary I in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. lix. 447 Whereunto the said inland-men may be induced, seeing the other go forth to adventure their lives for their defence.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R3 This wide Inland sea, that hight..The Idle lake.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 50 The Firth of Gades..whereas the Atlanticke Ocean breaking in, is spred into the Inland and Mediterranean seas.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iv. i. sig. Iiii2v All the Inland Towns in this large Estate.
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 47 Although such a Sermon may possibly doe some good in a Coast-Town, yet..in an Inland-Parish, it will doe no more than Syriack or Arabick.
1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces iv. 134 The Mariners or Schippers, who supply their Ships and Inland-Boats.
1792 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) III. 37 Companies for the improvement of our inland navigation.
1853 H. Rink in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 23 149 Let us call the group of peninsulas and islands..the out~skirts of the land [sc. Greenland], and the compact continent to the E. the inland.]
1853 H. Rink in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 23 151 The exclusive origin of the icebergs from the inland ice, through the icy friths, has been mentioned.
1871 A. B. Mitford Tales Old Japan I. 173 Shikoku, one of the southern islands separated from the chief island of Japan by the beautiful ‘Inland Sea’.
1876 W. E. Griffis Mikado's Empire i. v. 55 The ‘Inland Sea’ (Séto Uchi) is a name which has been given by foreigners, and adopted by the Japanese, who until modern times had no special name for it as a whole.
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxv. 221 A few generations ago Russia was literally an inland state.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 166/2 The Danes divide Greenland into two physical divisions—the ‘outskirts’ and the ‘inland ice’. The first comprises the coast-lying land, the latter the interior.
1891 B. H. Chamberlain & W. B. Mason Handbk. Travellers Japan (ed. 3) 357/2 The Inland Sea is the name given to the water space lying between the Main Island on the North and the islands of Shikoku and Kyūshū on the South.
1895 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 3 244 During the climax of the glacial period, when the Scandinavian ‘inland-ice’ invaded the low grounds of middle Europe, those low grounds supported an Arctic-alpine flora.
1898 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 54 200 In addition to these ‘inland ice-sheets’ there are in Spitsbergen glaciers of the ordinary Alpine type.
1953 G. Williamson Changing Greenland xiv. 167 Six-sevenths of Greenland's 840,000 square miles is locked in the implacable embrace of the Inland Ice.
1953 G. Williamson Changing Greenland xx. 254 Before leaving Disko Bay, tourists may..make an excursion to the fringe of the Inland Ice.
1958 G. B. Sansom Hist. Japan to 1334 xiv. 300 Before him lay the Inland Sea route to the Straits of Shimonoseki.
1966 T. Armstrong et al. Illustr. Gloss. Snow & Ice 27 Inland ice sheet, an ice sheet of considerable thickness and more than about 50,000 square km in area, resting on rock.
1969 M. Smeeton Misty Islands ii. 19 We entered the Inland Sea through the Hayasui Seto.
1973 Nature 5 Oct. 251/2 Although the strong echo from the upper surface of the ice [in Antarctica] shows little variation in strength, the normal bottom echo from inland ice..shows strong fading along the flight line.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > [adjective] > specifically of persons
refined1598
polite1601
inlanda1616
researched1636
spirituel1673
elegant1691
kid-gloved1848
kid glove1856
fine-drawn1876
rose water1883
sophisticated1895
subtle1904
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adjective] > well-mannered > polished or refined
well-polished1485
civil?1538
politic1596
cult1598
refined1598
inlanda1616
facete1616
urbane1623
terse1628
gentilitat1632
polite1751
politeful1832
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 335 An olde religious Vnckle of mine..who was in his youth an inland man, one that knew Courtship too well. View more context for this quotation
2. Carried on or operating within the limits of a country. Opposed to foreign, as in inland trade, inland bill of exchange. inland duty, a duty on inland trade or inland transactions, as the excise and stamp duties. inland navigation, communication by means of canals and navigable rivers. inland revenue, the part of the national revenue consisting of taxes and inland duties.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > domestic as opposed to foreign
domestical1531
inwarda1535
intestine1535
domestic1545
inland1546
home?1569
ephestian1652
inlandish1657
interior1768
blighty1900
society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > by river or canal
inland navigation1727
canalling1834
slack-water navigation1842
rivering1891
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > income of a nation or state > derived from taxes
finance?c1475
internal revenue1770
inland revenue1849
1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 75 They cannot spare the corne of the innelonde growthe to be caryed out, for feare of a famyne in thiese partyes.
1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 15 The Bill must be paid in the same Sort & Species of Monyes, that the Remitter paid to the Drawer for the Value..these are usually Inland Bills.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. Introd. 5 Our complete tradesman ought to understand all the inland trade of England.
1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. ii. iv. 123 Madrid..has neither Sea-port or Inland Navigation, no Navigable River being near it.
a1745 J. Swift in Wks. XIII. 83 A pamphlet printed in England for a general excise or inland duty.
1767 H. S. Homer Enq. into preserving Publick Roads 6 The yet more valuable Project of increasing inland Navigation.
1791 R. Mylne in Rep. Engineers Commissioners Navigation Thames The Thames is..very capable of an improved inland navigation.
1849 J. H. Freese Commerc. Class-bk. 23 Bills of exchange are either Inland bills, or Foreign bills. Inland bills of exchange, are those which are drawn from one place in a country on another place in the same country, in both of which the same kinds of monies are current..or, drawn by one person on another person in the same place.
1849 Act 12 & 13 Vict. c. 1 §1 From and after the passing of this Act the several Persons..now being Commissioners of Excise and Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes respectively shall..become and be One Consolidated Board of Commissioners, and be called ‘The Commissioners of Inland Revenue’.
1861 Chambers's Encycl. II. 551/2 Shewing how canals might be..used for inland navigation, in countries whose surface was irregular.
1895 Whitaker's Almanack 164 Inland Revenue Offices, Somerset House.
1895 Whitaker's Almanack 165 The Government Laboratory (Inland Revenue Branch).
1900 N.E.D. at Inland Mod. An illicit distillery discovered by the inland revenue officers.
C. adv.
In or towards the interior or heart of a country, as opposed (a) to the coast or border, (b) to wild outlying districts.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [adverb] > interior part
within land1614
inlanda1616
upcountry1863
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 96 Yet am I in-land bred, And know some nourture. View more context for this quotation
1784 J. Douglas Cook's Voy. Pacific II. iii. xiii. 260 The snow on the rising grounds was thinner spread; and farther inland, there was no appearance of any.
1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 156 In a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea. View more context for this quotation
1855 C. Kingsley Heroes (1868) i. iv. 48 Perseus feared to go inland, but flew along the shore above the sea.
Draft additions 1993
inland port n. a port on a river, as opposed to a sea harbour.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > place of loading or unloading vehicle > port (other than a sea-port)
porteOE
inland port1644
1644 W. Castell Short Discov. Coasts & Continent Amer. ii. 27 Onda the highest Inland Port belonging to Magdalena, much frequented by the Merchants of Cartagena and Martha.
1715 G. Miège Present State Great-Brit. & Irel. vii. 35 Bidiford and Barnstaple are two Inland Ports.
1807 Times 5 June 3/2 The former market for exports, was almost entirely supplied from the inland ports of the Northern banks of the great Rio del la Plata.
1867 ‘M. Twain’ Celebrated Jumping Frog 129 Young George W[ashington] was..a surveyor of an inland port.
1946 Geogr. Rev. 36 207 Duisburg-Ruhrfort, at the junction of the Ruhr and the Rhine, was the greatest inland port of Europe.
1996 Holiday Which? Jan. 60/1 Reports of la dolce vita on the Tay are thin on the ground, but the ‘Fair City’ survived..to become an important inland port.
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