lane

Meaning

A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
A narrow road, as in the country.
A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
A course designated for ships or aircraft.
An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
The home stretch.

alley

narrow street

by-street

road way

side-street

traffic lane

by-road

motor road

narrow passage

narrow path

national highway

rail line

carriage way

carriageroad

forest aisle

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/leɪn/

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lane, 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”).