lane

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”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /leɪn/

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• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophone: lain

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. A country lane
4. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles
5. A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart
6. A course designated for ships or aircraft
7. (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
8. (computing) Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.

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

• 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

• ELAN, Lena, Nale, Neal, elan, enal, lean, nale, neal, élan

From Latin lāna.

lane f

1. wool

• lanarûl
• lanôs

From French l’année (“the year”).

lane

1. year

lane f

1. plural of lana

• lena

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

• IPA^(key): [lɛdn]

lane

1. full

   T’eh lane dy chreeaght.

   He is full of confidence.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.nɛ/

lane

1. inflection of lany:
   1. neuter nominative singular
   2. neuter accusative singular
   3. neuter vocative singular
   4. nonvirile nominative plural
   5. nonvirile accusative plural
   6. nonvirile vocative plural

See lone.

lane (not comparable)

1. alone

From Proto-Slavic *olnę.

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

lȁne n (Cyrillic spelling ла̏не)

1. fawn
2. an affectionate term, dear child

Same as lȃni.

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

láne (Cyrillic spelling ла́не)

1. last year