English Explanatory Dictionary

lane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
  2. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
  3. A narrow road, as in the country.
  4. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
  5. A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
  6. A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
  7. Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
  8. A course designated for ships or aircraft.
  9. An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
  10. An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
  11. Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
  12. In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
name
  1. A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a lane.
  2. A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic] anglicised from various Irish surnames.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  4. A female given name.
  5. A number of places in the United States:
  6. An unincorporated community in Kootenai County, Idaho.
  7. An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.
  8. A minor city in Franklin County, Kansas.
  9. An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Nebraska, taken from the surname.
  10. A census-designated place in Atoka County, Oklahoma.
  11. A town in Williamsburg County, South Carolina.
  12. A town in Jerauld County, South Dakota.

Pronunciation

/leɪn/ en-us-lane.ogg

Word forms

lane lanes

Etymology

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”). Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).

Synonyms

carriageway direction roadway side alley

Derived words

acceleration lane air lane a whisper down the lane back lane bicycle lane bike lane breakdown lane bus lane bye-lane bylane carpool lane chicken lane Chorlton Lane climbing lane collector lane core lane country lane crawler lane cruising lane cycle lane devil's lane diamond lane express lane fast lane Field-lane duck filter lane fire lane flashing lane Four Lane Ends free-throw lane granny lane Green Lane guilt lane high-occupancy vehicle lane HOV lane inlane inside lane in the fast lane laned Lane End Lane Ends lane filtering laneful laneless laner lane snapper lane violation laneway left lane camper left lane hog left lane hogger left lane hugger Lexus lane ln. ln local lane lovers' lane lover's lane memory lane merge lane
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