lane
A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
Example
“Penny Lane”
Other meanings
A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
“There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane.”
A narrow road, as in the country.
A kind of
- way
Related words
- inlane
- laneful
- laneless
- multilane
- outlane
- relane
- thoroughlane
- throughlane
- acceleration lane
- air lane
- a whisper down the lane
- back lane
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "lanu" (a lane, alley, avenue).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “lane” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.