Definition of LANE

lane

Meanings

Plural: lanes

Noun

  • a narrow way or road
  • a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic
  • A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
  • A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
  • A narrow road, as in the country.
  • A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
  • A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
  • A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
  • Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
  • A course designated for ships or aircraft.
  • An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
  • An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
  • Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
  • In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
  • The home stretch.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, 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, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).

Scrabble Score: 4

lane is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
lane is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lane is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

lane is a valid Words With Friends word