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OVERLAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overland mean?
• OVERLAND (adjective)
The adjective OVERLAND has 1 sense:
1. traveling or passing over land
Familiarity information: OVERLAND used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Traveling or passing over land
Context example:
the overland route used by Marco Polo
Similar:
terrestrial (operating or living or growing on land)
Context examples
It will take her at the quickest speed she has ever made at least three weeks to reach Varna; but we can travel overland to the same place in three days.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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