: going or accomplished over the land instead of by sea
overland emigrants
an overland route
Examples of overland in a Sentence
Adverb
We traveled overland by horse to the mountains.
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Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2025
Both are good permanent solutions for people who overland or camp on the regular, but what about the weekend warrior who only plans to sleep in their daily driver on weekends?
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 2 May 2025
Mariah Meek, The Conversation, 30 June 2025
Front Runner has a deep, long-running catalog of overland products, but possibly its most visible and ubiquitous is its lineup of square Wolf Pack Pro boxes that stack and secure together to make dry storage as neat, secure and space-efficient as possible.
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Adverb
The impetus to travel overland to Afghanistan at 19 came from a need — for want of a better phrase — to discover something within myself, not to discover Afghanistan.
—Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2025
Both are good permanent solutions for people who overland or camp on the regular, but what about the weekend warrior who only plans to sleep in their daily driver on weekends?
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 2 May 2025
Adjective
These herds undertake some of the longest overland migrations on Earth.
—Mariah Meek, The Conversation, 30 June 2025
Front Runner has a deep, long-running catalog of overland products, but possibly its most visible and ubiquitous is its lineup of square Wolf Pack Pro boxes that stack and secure together to make dry storage as neat, secure and space-efficient as possible.
—New Atlas, 4 June 2025
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“Overland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overland. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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