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laner

/ˈleɪnəɹ/

laner noun: in MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a player who focuses on enemy characters traversing a particular "lane" or path on the map.

Noun (1)

laner (plural laners)

  1. In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a player who focuses on enemy characters traversing a particular "lane" or path on the map.
    • Though teams from China have hoisted the Summoner’s Cup, which goes to the Worlds champion, it’s always been South Korean mid laners who have starred on those teams. Erzberger said Knight wants to be the first Chinese mid laner to hoist that trophy — and maybe become a national treasure himself.2023 November 10, Daniel Brown, “League of Legends Worlds: Can ‘Golden Left Hand’ top ‘Faker’ to earn a grand slam?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2024

Noun (2)

laner (plural laners)

  1. (in-compounds) A highway with a specified number of lanes.
    • The eight-laner is traversed by an estimated 80,000 vehicles, as many as 1 million pedestrians – and countless cows each day.2011 December 2, Beth Collins, “10 record-breaking bridges”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2025
    • Get a load of where our heads are at in the USA as 2012 arrives on the scene. Family Fun Walk on a nine-laner, anyone?2012 January 6, James Kunstler, “Eyesore of the Month - January 2012”, in Kunstler, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2024

Examples of laner in a sentence

  • Before the state began its transformation then, we wrote a column criticizing Commissioner Van Ten Eyck’s idea of the tearing down the four-laner after completing the six-laner.2012 February 28, Lou Powsner, “Lou: The Gowanus Expressway was a mistake”, in Brooklyn Paper, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2025:
  • It's a five-laner, two lanes running in opposite directions with a center lane up the middle, and it's that center lane that gets people.2012 June 6, Molly Harrison, “Rules of the Road”, in Outer Banks This Week, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2024:
  • Wood said the city took that idea from Union Street, which it had converted to a three-laner between Dragoon Trail and downtown after the city took over that road from the state.2018 September 5, Joseph Dits, “Lincoln Way to be repaved as 3 lanes to calm traffic in Mishawaka”, in South Bend Tribune, archived from...
  • This country two-laner runs at the center of a deep valley along Palomares Creek (for about 5 miles) in the heart of rural ranch country.2020 January 31, Tom Stienstra, “Sunday Drive: Palomares Two-Laner”, in SFGATE, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2024:

Forms of laner

plurallaners

Origin of laner

From lane + -er (relational suffix).

From lane + -er (measurement suffix).

Questions about laner

What does laner mean?
Laner means in MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a player who focuses on enemy characters traversing a particular "lane" or path on the map.
How do you use laner in a sentence?
Before the state began its transformation then, we wrote a column criticizing Commissioner Van Ten Eyck’s idea of the tearing down the four-laner after completing the six-laner.
What part of speech is laner?
Laner is a noun.
How do you pronounce laner?
Laner is pronounced /ˈleɪnəɹ/.
What is the plural of laner?
The plural of laner is laners.

Words near laner in the dictionary

  1. laneful
  2. lanefuls
  3. lanekeeping
  4. laneless
  5. Lanena
  6. laner
  7. laners
  8. lanes
  9. Lanesborough
  10. Lanese
  11. Laneses

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