Definitions for Lane

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Lane lane

Spelling: [leyn]

IPA: /leɪn/

Lane is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Lane (aeln).

Definitions for 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):
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).
7. a male given name.

Idioms

1. by one's lane. lonesome (def 4).

adjective

1. lone.

Origin of Lane

before 1000; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch laan avenue, Old Norse lǫn oblong hayrick, row of houses

Examples for Lane

She took it up the lane to the place where the man is; and they put it behind the palings.

And now, looking down the lane among the trees, he saw men surge into it.

On the homeward way they turned into a lane and came to a clump of catnip.

lane spilled no secrets when taken into custody, so we probably will never know.

Former cadet lane said he only saw Jackson attempt to catch one of them.

lane is one of those criminals whose 15 minutes of infamy never seem to end.

It stood off from the high road, in Black's lane, at the head of the town.

Opperud and another unnamed inmate were captured shortly after lane.

Crane drove back to the village and went at once to the cashier, Mr. lane's house.

As other prisoners took advantage of the rehabilitation programs offered, lane and Opperud secretly planned an escape.