lane

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lane"

English

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /leɪn/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophone: lain

Noun

lane (plural lanes)

1. (used in street names) 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.

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.

   the exit lane

5. (athletics) A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.

   There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.

6. (swimming) 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. (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.

   We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.

10. (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
11. (computing) Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
12. (video games) In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
13. (horse racing) The home stretch.

    And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.

Synonyms

• (thoroughfare): carriageway, direction, roadway, side
• (narrow passageway): See Thesaurus:alley

Derived terms

• 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
• high-occupancy vehicle lane
• HOV lane
• inside lane
• in the fast lane
• laned
• Lane End
• Lane Ends
• lane filtering
• 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
• New Lane
• on one's lee-lane
• overtaking lane
• passing lane
• pick a lane
• pit lane
• Rayners Lane
• red lane
• reserved bus lane
• right lane camper
• right lane hog
• right lane hogger
• right lane hugger
• running lane
• Sandy Lane
• sea-lane
• sea lane
• shared lane marking
• shipping lane
• skate one's lane
• slip lane
• slow lane
• stay in one's lane
• Street Lane
• suicide lane
• swimlane
• swim lane
• transit lane
• victory lane
• whisper down the lane
• White Hart Lane
• Zil lane
• zipper lane

 

Translations

passageway

• Arabic: زُقَاق m (zuqāq), ممر m (mamarr)

  Egyptian Arabic: زقاق m (zuʔaaʔ), ممر m (mamarr)

• Belarusian: заву́лак m (zavúlak), але́я f (aljéja)
• Bulgarian: але́я f (aléja), у́личка f (úlička)
• Catalan: carril (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胡同 (zh) (hútòng), 巷 (zh) (xiàng), 里弄 (zh) (lǐnòng)

• Coptic: ⲣⲁⲃⲏ f (rawa)
• Czech: ulička (cs) f
• Dutch: gang (nl) m, wegeltje (nl) n, laan (nl) f
• Esperanto: aleo (eo)
• Finnish: käytävä (fi), kulkuväylä (fi)
• French: chemin (fr) m, (in a town) ruelle (fr) f, allée (fr) f
• Galician: corredoira f, carreiro m, carreira (gl) f
• Georgian: შესახვევი (šesaxvevi)
• German: Gasse (de) f
• Greek: σοκάκι (el) n (sokáki), στενό (el) n (stenó)

  Ancient: λαύρα f (laúra)

• Hebrew: מִשְׁעוֹל (he) m (mish'ól)
• Hindi: गली (hi) f (galī), खोरी f (khorī)
• Hungarian: köz (hu), utcácska (hu), mellékutca (hu)
• Irish: lána m
• Italian: passaggio (it) m, corsia (it) f
• Japanese: 路地 (ja) (ろじ, roji), 細道 (ほそみち, hosomichi)
• Korean: 골목 (ko) (golmok)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کۆڵان (kollan)

• Macedonian: сокак m (sokak)
• Occitan: camin (oc) m, alèia f
• Persian: کوچه (fa) (kuče)
• Polish: aleja (pl) f, alejka (pl) f, uliczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: alameda (pt)
• Romanian: uliță (ro) f
• Russian: переу́лок (ru) m (pereúlok), алле́я (ru) f (alléja), але́йка (ru) f (aléjka), у́лочка (ru) f (úločka)
• Scottish Gaelic: caol-shràid f
• Slovak: ulička f
• Spanish: camino (es)
• Thai: ซอย (th) (sɔɔi) (Thai "soi"), ตรอก (th) (dtrɔ̀ɔk), เลน (th) (leen)
• Turkish: dar yol, patika (tr)
• Ukrainian: прову́лок (uk) m (provúlok), але́я (uk) f (aléja)
• Urdu: گلی f (galī), کوچہ (kūća)
• Vietnamese: hẻm (vi)
• Welsh: beidr f, lôn f

a narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees

• Galician: corredoira f
• Hungarian: átjáró (hu), sikátor (hu)

a narrow road, as in the country

• Esperanto: vojeto
• Galician: corredoira f, carreiro m
• Hungarian: ösvény (hu), dűlő (hu), dűlőút (hu)

division of roadway

• Arabic: مَسَار m (masār)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَسَار m (masār)

• Asturian: carril f
• Bashkir: һыҙат (hıźat)
• Basque: lerro
• Bulgarian: ле́нта (bg) f (lénta)
• Catalan: carril (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車道／车道 (zh) (chēdào)

• Czech: pruh (cs) m, jízdní pruh m
• Danish: kørebane (da) c, vognbane (da) c, vejbane c, bane (da) cspor c
• Dutch: rijvak (nl) n, rijstrook (nl) m, baanvak (nl) n (Belgium)
• Esperanto: koridoro
• Faroese: farbreyt
• Finnish: kaista (fi)
• French: voie (fr) f
• Galician: carril (gl) m
• German: Spur (de) f, Streifen (de) m
• Greek: λωρίδα (el) f (lorída)
• Hebrew: נָתִיב (he) m (natív)
• Hungarian: sáv (hu)
• Icelandic: akrein (is) f
• Irish: lána m
• Italian: corsia (it) f
• Japanese: 車線 (ja) (しゃせん, shasen), レーン (ja) (rēn)
• Luxembourgish: Bunn
• Macedonian: лента f (lenta)
• Malay: lorong (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эгнээ (mn) (egnee)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjørefelt n

  Nynorsk: køyrefelt n

• Polish: pas (ruchu) m
• Portuguese: pista (pt) f (Brazil), faixa (pt) f (Brazil), via de trânsito f (Portugal)
• Russian: полоса́ (ru) f (polosá)
• Slovak: pruh m
• Slovene: pas (sl) m
• Spanish: carril (es) m, (Venezuela) canal (es) m
• Swedish: fil (sv) c, körfält (sv) n
• Turkish: şerit (tr)
• Ukrainian: сму́га ру́ху f (smúha rúxu), сму́га (uk) f (smúha)
• Vietnamese: làn đường, làn xe, phần đường

division of racetrack

• Bulgarian: коридо́р (bg) m (koridór)
• Catalan: carrer (ca) m
• Czech: dráha (cs) f, závodní dráha f
• Dutch: rijvak (nl) n, rijstrook (nl) m
• Finnish: rata (fi)
• German: Bahn (de) f
• Hebrew: נָתִיב (he) m (natív)
• Hungarian: sáv (hu), pálya (hu), futópálya (hu)
• Italian: corsia (it) f
• Polish: dróżka (pl) f
• Portuguese: raia (pt) f
• Russian: доро́жка (ru) f (doróžka)
• Slovak: dráha (sk)
• Slovene: proga f
• Spanish: calle (es)
• Swedish: spår (sv) n
• Tamil: தடம் (ta) (taṭam)
• Turkish: kulvar (tr)
• Vietnamese: phần đường

any of a number of parallel tracks or passages

• German: Durchgang (de) m
• Hungarian: sáv (hu), sor (hu)

course for ships or aircraft

• Bulgarian: трасе́ n (trasé)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛行航線／飞行航线 (féixíng hángxiàn), 航路 (zh) (hánglù), 空中走廊 (kōngzhōng zǒuláng) (air)

• Czech: trasa (cs) f
• Finnish: väylä (fi), reitti (fi)
• French: (for aircraft) couloir aérien m, couloir (fr) m
• German: Spur (de) f, Route (de) f
• Hebrew: נָתִיב (he) m (natív)
• Hungarian: útvonal (hu)
• Italian: corsia (it) f
• Japanese: 航空路 (ja) (くうこうろ, kūkōro) (air), 規定航路 (きていこうろ, kiteikōro)
• Russian: тра́сса (ru) f (trássa)
• Spanish: carrera (es) f
• Turkish: (aviation) hava yolu (tr), (maritime) su yolu (tr)

Further reading

• “lane”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “lane”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “lane”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Lena, enal, lean, neal, Elan, elan, élan, Lean, ELAN, Nale, Neal, nale, Alen, Alne

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin lāna.

Noun

lane f

1. wool

Related terms

• lanarûl
• lanôs

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French l’année (“the year”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lane/

Noun

lane

1. year

Italian

Noun

lane f

1. plural of lana

Anagrams

• ENAL, lena

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish lán, from Proto-Celtic *ɸlānos (compare Welsh llawn), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lɛdn]

Adjective

lane

1. full

   T’eh lane dy chreeaght.

   He is full of confidence.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lone

Etymology

From Old English lanu, from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō.

The form lone continues Mercian Old English lone, reflecting the dialectal rounding of Germanic */ɑn/. In most words, this rounding is only apparent in Western Middle English, but lone is the usual Northern form as well, making it a relic of the wider Old English distribution.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːn(ə)/
• (West Midland, Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːn(ə)/, /ˈlɒːn(ə)/

Noun

lane (plural lanes)

1. lane, alley (narrow passage between buildings)
2. (by extension) Any road or street.
3. (rare) A path or track.

Descendants

• English: lane (dialectal loan)
  • ⇒ English: lonnen, loanen, lonnin
  • → Middle Scots: lane
  • → Welsh: lôn
• Scots: lone, loan
• Yola: laane
• → Irish: lána

References

• “lāne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• lana (a-infinitive)

Etymology

From the noun lan (“LAN (party)”) +‎ -e.

Verb

lane (present tense lanar, past tense lana, past participle lana, passive infinitive lanast, present participle lanande, imperative lane/lan)

1. to attend or host a LAN party

Anagrams

• alen, alne, lena, Lena, la-en

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.nɛ/
• Rhymes: -anɛ
• Syllabification: la‧ne

Participle

lane

1. inflection of lany:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Scots

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

lane (not comparable)

1. alone

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *olnę.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lâne/
• Hyphenation: la‧ne

Noun

lȁne n (Cyrillic spelling ла̏не)

1. fawn
2. an affectionate term, dear child

Declension

Declension of lane

	singular	plural
nominative	lȁne	lanad
genitive	laneta	lȁnādī
dative	lanetu	lanadi
accusative	lane	lanad
vocative	lane	lanadi
locative	lanetu	lanadi
instrumental	lanetom	lanađu / lanadi

Alternative forms

• lani

Etymology 2

Same as lȃni.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lǎːne/
• Hyphenation: la‧ne

Adverb

láne (Cyrillic spelling ла́не)

1. last year