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lane

/leɪn/UK/leɪn/

lane noun: a road, street, or similar thoroughfare.

lane: a road, street, or similar thoroughfare
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Noun

lane (plural lanes)

  1. A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
    • Penny Lane
  2. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
    • There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane.
    • Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away / From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra.c. 1930, Dominic Behan, “Come Out Ye Black and Tans”performed by The Wolfe Tones
    Synonyms:
    alley
  3. A narrow road, as in the country.
  4. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
    • Drivers should overtake in the outside lane
    • We were held up by a truck in the middle lane of the freeway.
  5. A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
    • There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.
  6. A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
    • a swimming lane
  7. Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
    • the checkout lanes in a supermarket
  8. A course designated for ships or aircraft.
    • shipping lane
  9. An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
    • We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.
  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. A single serial data path in the PCI Express standard.
  13. In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
  14. The home stretch.
    • And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.

Proper noun capitalized: Lane

Lane

  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. An unincorporated community in Kootenai County, Idaho.
  6. An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.
  7. A minor city in Franklin County, Kansas.
  8. An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Nebraska, taken from the surname.
  9. A census-designated place in Atoka County, Oklahoma.
  10. A town in Williamsburg County, South Carolina.
  11. A town in Jerauld County, South Dakota.
  12. A hamlet in Colan parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8260).
  13. A hamlet near Holme, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1005).
  14. (UK, informal) The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
    • It was a gala night at the Lane, with Charles Mathews coming over from Covent Garden […]1950, Basil Francis, Fanny Kelly of Drury Lane, page 37

lane meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

lane in Hindi

passageway
गली galī, खोरी khorī

lane in Tamil

division of racetrack
தடம் taṭam

lane in Marathi

lane, alleyway, back street
गल्ली gallī

lane in Urdu

passageway
گلی galī, کوچہ kūća
More languagesFewer languages
lane in Bengali
গলি, সঙ্কীর্ণ পথ, সঙ্কীর্ণ রাস্তা, নির্দেশিত পথ
lane in Telugu
గల్లీ gallī, బంకు baṅku, గొంది gondi
lane in Malayalam
ഇട iṭa
lane in Kannada
ಓಣಿ, ಗೊಂದಿ, ಬೀದಿ, ಗಲ್ಲಿ
lane in Punjabi
ਲੇਨ
lane in Gujarati
લેન
lane in Odia
ଲେନ୍, ଲେନ
lane in Sinhala
මුඩුක්කුව muḍukkuwa
lane in Arabic
زُقَاق zuqāq, ممر mamarr, مَسَار masār
lane in Malay
lorong
lane in Persian
کوچه kuče
lane in Thai
ซอย sɔɔi, ตรอก dtrɔ̀ɔk, เลน leen
lane in Vietnamese
hẻm, phần đường, làn đường, làn xe

Examples of lane in a sentence

  • The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.
  • The express checkout lane is for those with ten items or less.
  • Because of the tighter bend, it's harder to run in an inside lane.

All 40 example sentences with lane

Synonyms of lane

All synonyms of lane

Forms of lane

plurallanes

Plural of lane: lanes

Origin of lane

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”).

As an English surname, from lane; as an Irish surname, from several origins, including Laighin. See Lane.

Words formed from lane

Phrases with lane

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Words that rhyme with lane

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Questions about lane

What does lane mean?
Lane means a road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
What is lane in Hindi?
Lane in Hindi is गली (galī), खोरी (khorī). See Lane meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is lane?
Lane can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lane?
Lane is pronounced /leɪn/ (UK).
What is the plural of lane?
The plural of lane is lanes.

Words near lane in the dictionary

  1. landyachts
  2. landyke
  3. landykes
  4. Landyn
  5. Landys
  6. lane
  7. Lane cake
  8. Lane County
  9. Lane Cove
  10. Lane Cove North
  11. Lane Cove West

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lane (page history and authors); Lane (page history and authors); गल्ली (Marathi) (page history and authors); lane (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); గల్లీ (Telugu) (page history and authors); ഇട (Malayalam) (page history and authors); lane (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lane (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lane (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lane (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); මුඩුක්කුව (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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