Definition of "overland" []

• Accomplished, traversing, or passing over the land instead of the ocean: an overland journey; an overland route. (adjective)
• By way of land: traveled overland to the ranch. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The Port. word (attested from 1559) came via Macao; and Rus. chai, Pers. cha, Gk. tsai, Arabic shay and Turk. çay all came overland from the Mandarin form."
• "It focuses on the Russian tea tradition, revealing a long history that originated in overland Sino-Russian trade via Siberia, this differing significantly from that of Britain with its colonial contacts in India."
• "The distance to Morelia from there overland is not that much greater than from Veracruz to Morelia."