Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea.
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- noun Someone who lives
inland .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A well-known characteristic of the "inlander," which he possesses in common with some classes in other races, is that if he receives his due, no more and no less, he accepts the payment without question, but if a gratuity is added he will invariably ask for more.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, Java, told me that an "inlander" once applied to him for a position.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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The sail was recognizable to anyone but an inlander.
The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003
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Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any.
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He becomes quite furious because he has never found any work in which "an upstart inlander has ever preached a crusade against the Turks because they did not introduce knives and forks at their tables," &c. Even
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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The scorn of the true-born, seafaring Breton for the inlander, and especially for the half-caste Bretons of the Nantes district.
Death of a Harbormaster Simenon, Georges 1942
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It is a terrible shock to the simple inlander, who has fed upon Congessional oratory and provincial editorials, when he discovers that in certain European capitals the name "American" is almost a term of reproach.
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But, even as many sailors cannot swim a stroke, so many an inlander, born and brought up within sight of fresh water, has never taken the trouble to grasp the simplest rudiments of natation.
Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907
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Meantime, with unspoiled and sparkling eye, the inlander saw, broad sweeping before him, mist-bordered, dream-vast, dim-seen beneath the lowering sky, the magic city whose pulsings send and call a nation's life-blood.
The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901
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His Aunt Hannah did her best to make him comfortable, preparing for him the first day a clam chowder, which delicacy Charley, being an inlander, could not eat.
The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869
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