Definition of Overland

1. Adjective. Traveling or passing over land. "The overland route used by Marco Polo"

Similar to: Terrestrial

Definition of Overland

1. a. Being, or accomplished, over the land, instead of by sea; as, an overland journey.

2. adv. By, upon, or across, land.

Definition of Overland

1. Adjective. by or across land, especially of travel ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overland

1. a train or stagecoach that travels over land [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overland

overlaboring
overlabors
overlabour
overlaboured
overlabouring
overlabours
overlade
overladed
overladen
overlades
overlading
overlaid
overlain
overlaminate
overlaminates
overland (current term)
overlander
overlanders
overlands
overlanguaged
overlap
overlap hybridization
overlap index
overlapped
overlapping
overlapping gene
overlapping reading frame
overlappingly
overlappings
overlaps

Literary usage of Overland

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"overland ns 69:56 Ja '17 Russell, Elizabeth Luncheons lor school children. ... overland ns 69:331 Ар '17 Russell, HA Factory purchasing system methods and ..."

2. Poole's Index to Periodical Literature: The First Supplement, from January 1 by William Frederick Poole, William Isaac Fletcher (1888)
"(S. Day) overland, ns 4: 530. Local Government in the Mines. (CH Shinn) overland ... (SH Willey) overland, n. я. 6: 26. Early Days of the PE Church. ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"overland TO INDIA IN 1789 AND 1889. IT has long been a common thing for ... Such is the overland route of to-day ; but such was not the overland route of ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"The overland mail is not, we suspect, an advantageous dis- ... The meeting with the overland mail was only au incident in the desert, to the tourist who ..."

5. A History of the United States Since the Civil War by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1917)
"The contractors had organized themselves into the overland Mail Company, under the presidency of WB Dinsmore of New York, and for $1000000 annually, ..."

6. The Quarterly (1893)
"overland TO LOS ANGELES, BY THE SALT LAKE ROUTE IN 1849. BY JUDGE WALTER VAN DYKE. I have been requested many times by members of your Society to furnish a ..."

7. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"The Colonel considered this as countermanding his order to make up the overland pontoon train, and knowing that General McClellan had been relieved after ..."

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