Meaning

1 senses
  1. A trip by land between the UK and the Indian subcontinent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. It's very difficult to transport them overland, but simple to do so by sea.

    ruОчень трудно перевозить их по суше, но легко это сделать по морю. — Selena777

    deEs ist schwierig, es auf dem Landweg zu transportieren, aber einfach, es auf dem Seeweg zu transportieren. — xtofu80

  2. The overland trails and the relatively slow pace of the wagon trains were deceptively peaceful.

Origin

From over + land.

From over + land.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: overlands
Singularoverland
Pluraloverlands

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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