overland
overland adjective: by or across land.
Adjective
overland (not comparable)
- By or across land.
- Let's take the overland route.
- So, sir. I desire of you
A conduct overland to Milford Haven.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
Adverb
overland (not comparable)
- Over, across, or by land.
- To prevent this, he practised that none of the Companies servauntes shuld be suffered to goe overland with letters.1589, Jerome Horsey, manuscript reproduced in Edward Augustus Bond (ed.), Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century, T. Richards (1856), page 317
- 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.1786, Earl Cornwallis, letter to Viscount Brome, reproduced in Charles Ross (ed.), Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis, volume 1, second edition, John Murray (1859), page 247
Noun
overland (plural overlands)
- A trip by land between the UK and the Indian subcontinent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.
Verb
overland (third-person singular simple present overlands, present participle overlanding, simple past and past participle overlanded)
- To transport (especially sheep or other farm animals) over land.
- Not long after, in 1878, Nathaniel Buchanan overlanded cattle from Queensland to Glencoe and Daly River stations in the Northern Territory.2000, Ian Parsonson, The Australian Ark: A History of Domesticated Animals in Australia, Csiro, →ISBN, page 102
- Synonyms:
- drove
- To travel across land.
- To go on a recreational expedition to a remote destination, often with the aid of an off-road vehicle.
- I don't think any of them had done the backpacker thing and certainly hadn't overlanded through Africa before, as we had.2017 [2010], Pat Garrod, Bearback: The World Overland, paperback edition, Troubador, →ISBN
overland meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Nepali
overland in Tamil
- தரைவழி
overland in Bengali
- জলপথের পরিবর্তে স্থলপথে ভ্রমণ, পরিবহন
overland in Kannada
- ಭೂಮಾರ್ಗವಾಗಿ, ಭೂಮಾರ್ಗದ, ನೆಲಹಾದಿಯಾಗಿ, ನೆಲದ ಮೇಲೆ
overland in Nepali
- ओभरल्यान्ड, ओभरल्याण्ड
Examples of overland in a sentence
- Switzerland is landlocked and obviously will never be a great sea power and must always trade overland.
- This strict sense of telegraph developed from French usage for Napoleon's overland semaphore network but rather arbitrarily excludes similar Chinese and other signalling networks.
- Another beaver trapper and leader of an overland party, Ewing Young, also tried his hand at ottering.
Synonyms of overland
Antonyms
Forms of overland
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | overlands |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | overlands |
| present participle | overlanding |
| past participle | overlanded |
| past | overlanded |
Origin of overland
From over + land.
Words formed from overland
Phrases with overland
Questions about overland
- What does overland mean?
- Overland means by or across land.
- What is overland in Tamil?
- Overland in Tamil is தரைவழி. See Overland meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is overland?
- Overland can be an adjective, an adverb, a noun or a verb.
Words near overland in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: overland (page history and authors); overland (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overland (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overland (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overland (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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