lane
English
Etymology
From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lane, lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), 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 (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).
Noun
lane (plural lanes)
- (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare
- A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees
- A narrow road, as in the country. A country lane
- A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles
- A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart
- A course designated for ships or aircraft
- (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
- (computing) Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
Synonyms
- (thoroughfare): carriageway, direction, roadway, side
- (narrow passageway): See Thesaurus:alley
Derived terms
Terms derived from lane
Translations
passageway
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division of roadway
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division of racetrack
course for ships or aircraft
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Further reading
- lane in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lane in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- lane at OneLook Dictionary Search
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish lán, from Proto-Celtic *ɸlānos (compare Welsh llawn), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [lɛdn]
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈla.nɛ/
Participle
lane
- inflection of lany:
- neuter nominative singular
- neuter accusative singular
- neuter vocative singular
- nonvirile nominative plural
- nonvirile accusative plural
- nonvirile vocative plural
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *olnę.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lâne/
- Hyphenation: la‧ne
Declension
Declension of lane
singular | plural | |
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nominative | lȁne | lanad |
genitive | laneta | lȁnādī |
dative | lanetu | lanadi |
accusative | lane | lanad |
vocative | lane | lanadi |
locative | lanetu | lanadi |
instrumental | lanetom | lanađu / lanadi |
Etymology 2
Same as lȃni.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lǎːne/
- Hyphenation: la‧ne
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