adjective
- lone.
Idioms
- by one’s lane. lonesome(def 4).
noun
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- a narrow road or way between buildings, hedges, fences, etc
- (capital as part of a street name)Drury Lane
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- any of the parallel strips into which the carriageway of a major road or motorway is divided
- any narrow well-defined route or course for ships or aircraft
- one of the parallel strips into which a running track or swimming bath is divided for races
- the long strip of wooden flooring down which balls are bowled in a bowling alley
adjective Scot dialect
- lone or alone
- one’s lane or on one’s lane on one’s own
n.Old English lane, lanu “narrow hedged-in road,” common Germanic (cf. Old Frisian lana, Middle Dutch lane, Dutch laan “lane,” Old Norse lön “row of houses”), of unknown origin. As one track of a marked road, from 1921, American English. see fast lane; lovers’ lane.