Noun: lane
Sample Sentences
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Penny Lane
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There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane.
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Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away / From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra. [c. 1930, Dominic Behan, “Come Out Ye Black and Tans”performed by The Wolfe Tones:]
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Drivers should overtake in the outside lane
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We were held up by a truck in the middle lane of the freeway.
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the exit lane
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There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.
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a swimming lane
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the checkout lanes in a supermarket
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shipping lane
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We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.
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And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.
Nouns inflected like lane
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).
2. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
lane', Old English Nouns '
lanu', Dutch Nouns '
laan', Swedish Nouns '
lån'.
Verbs referencing "lane"
German Nouns
Lahnung.