lane

English Online Dictionary. What means lane‎? What does lane mean?

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/
• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophone: lain

Noun

lane (plural lanes)

1. (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.

2. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
3. A narrow road, as in the country.
4. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.

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

6. (swimming) A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.

7. Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.

8. A course designated for ships or aircraft.

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

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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• “lane”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lane”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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): /lɛːn/, [lɛdn]

Adjective

lane

1. full

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

References

Anagrams

• alen, alne, lena, Lena, la-en

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.ne/

Noun

lane f

1. lane, narrow path

Declension

Weak feminine (n-stem):

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “lane”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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

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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

Alternative forms

• lani

Etymology 2

Same as lȃni.

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

láne (Cyrillic spelling ла́не)

1. last year