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lane

1

[ leyn ]

noun

  1. a narrow way or passage between hedges, fences, walls, or houses.

    Synonyms: alley

  2. any narrow or well-defined passage, track, channel, or course.
  3. a longitudinally marked part of a highway wide enough to accommodate one vehicle, often set off from adjacent lanes by painted lines (often used in combination):

    a new six-lane turnpike.

  4. a fixed route followed by ocean steamers or airplanes.
  5. (in a running or swimming race) the marked-off space or path within which a competitor must remain during the course of a race.
  6. a long, narrow wooden track that a ball rolls down in a game of bowling.
  7. an area of interest or expertise that is associated with a person or group whose contributions or authority in that area are respected:

    Teen magazines should stay in their lane and stick to publishing articles about relationships, style, and beauty.

  8. Politics. an affiliation or faction that presents one path to nomination or election victory for candidates who espouse that ideology or embody its ideals:

    The libertarian candidates siphoned voters away from the conservative establishment lane in the primary.

  9. (in a MOBA video game) one of the major arteries on the map between the two strongholds in which the fighting between characters occurs:

    Our strategy is to push with a support character in the top lane.



lane

2

[ leyn ]

adjective

Lane

3

[ leyn ]

noun

  1. a male given name.

lane

1

/ leɪn /

adjective

  1. lone or alone
  2. one's lane or on one's lane
    on one's own
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


lane

2

/ leɪn /

noun

    1. a narrow road or way between buildings, hedges, fences, etc
    2. ( capital as part of a street name )

      Drury Lane

    1. any of the parallel strips into which the carriageway of a major road or motorway is divided
    2. any narrow well-defined route or course for ships or aircraft
  1. one of the parallel strips into which a running track or swimming bath is divided for races
  2. the long strip of wooden flooring down which balls are bowled in a bowling alley
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lane1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch laan “avenue,” Old Norse lǫn “oblong hayrick, row of houses”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lane1

Old English lane, lanu, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch lāne lane
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. by one's lane. lonesome ( def 4 ).

More idioms and phrases containing lane

see fast lane ; lovers' lane .
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Synonym Study

See path.
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Example Sentences

Hawthorne Boulevard’s northbound lanes feature escape lanes on the right to help drivers who pick up too much speed coming down hill.

All motorists benefit from HOT lanes, Townsend said, because those willing to pay tolls free up space in the free lanes.

Police said the car had started to slow for traffic in front of it that was trying to yield to the man running across the roadway, but the Honda hit him in the left lane of the highway.

Back on flat ground, it was so slow, it was legitimately unsafe to pass in the oncoming lane.

As robots evolve, we can release them from their fixed “lanes.”

This week the Church of England named the Reverend Libby Lane as its first female bishop.

Former cadet Lane said he only saw Jackson attempt to catch one of them.

Down a one-lane gravel road sits the house Burton left seven years ago.

Robin Williams and Nathan Lane play lovers—life partners, really.

Cars swarm dangerously around them on this two-lane road carved, literally, into the side of a chain of mountains.

The order of meals at Lane End was somewhat peculiar even then, and would now be almost unique.

The main entrance is in the centre of the St. Martin's Lane front, and consists of a central roadway for carts and wagons, 15ft.

They walked silently down the lane together, Gilbert sullen and mortified, Dorothy pitying but resolute.

Water Street, formerly Water Lane, had a brook running down one side of it when houses were first built there.

Mis' Calvert, she saw you in a lane, or somethin', and fetched you back to that Baltimore city where the both of you lived.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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