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overland
1[oh-ver-land, -luhnd]
adverb
by land; on terrain.
to travel overland rather than by sea.
over or across the land.
a road that winds overland.
adjective
proceeding, performed, or carried on overland.
the overland route to the West.
Overland
2[oh-ver-luhnd]
noun
a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
overland
/ ˈəʊəˌæԻ /
adjective
over or across land
verb
history to drive (cattle or sheep) overland
Other 51Թ Forms
- ˈDZˌԻ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
Because he lacked identity documents, he traveled back to Colombia overland.
There was an overland route from St. Louis and Memphis, Tenn., to San Francisco that required a roughly 22-day journey by horse-drawn stagecoach.
They found that the Martian valleys' branching angles "are more similar to terrestrial valley networks incised by overland flow, than valley networks incised by re-emerging groundwater flow."
Americans, in the meantime, kept poking at nominally Spanish California from the sea and overland, looking for weak points and deploring what they and Europeans thought were wasted possibilities in California’s under-exploited amenities.
She and her partner said they arrived in Mexico City last week after a two-month overland trek.
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