lane

noun

1. a narrow way or passage between hedges, fences, walls, or houses.
2. any narrow or well-defined passage, track, channel, or course.
3. a longitudinally marked part of a highway wide enough to accommodate one vehicle, often set off from adjacent lanes by painted lines (often used in combination): a new six-lane turnpike.
4. a fixed route followed by ocean steamers or airplanes.
5. (in a running or swimming race) the marked-off space or path within which a competitor must remain during the course of a race.
6. bowling alley(def 1).

adjective

1. lone.

Idioms

2. by one’s lane. lonesome(def 4).

noun

1. a male given name.

noun

1. 1. a narrow road or way between buildings, hedges, fences, etc
   2. (capital as part of a street name)Drury Lane
2. 1. any of the parallel strips into which the carriageway of a major road or motorway is divided
   2. any narrow well-defined route or course for ships or aircraft
3. one of the parallel strips into which a running track or swimming bath is divided for races
4. the long strip of wooden flooring down which balls are bowled in a bowling alley

adjective Scot dialect

1. lone or alone
2. 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.