LANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lane mean? 

• LANE (noun)
  The noun LANE has 2 senses:

1. a narrow way or road

2. a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic

  Familiarity information: LANE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A narrow way or road

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lane" is a kind of...):

way (any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lane" is a kind of...):

path (a way especially designed for a particular use)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lane"):

alley; bowling alley; skittle alley (a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins)

free throw lane (a lane on a basketball court extending from the end line to 15 feet in front of the backboard; players may not enter this lane during a free throw)

sea lane; seaway; ship route; trade route (a lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels)

traffic lane (a lane of a main road that is defined by painted lines)

 Context examples 

Boots had then run down the lane, and another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been hurt.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I skirted fields, and hedges, and lanes till after sunrise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They had travelled half their way along the rough lane, before she was quite awake to what they said.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

There were many other views to be shewn; and though the weather was hot, there were shady lanes wherever they wanted to go.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A lane of small boys beyond me, with the same interest in his eye, watch it too.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Meg spoke as if to herself, and glanced out at the lane where she had often seen lovers walking together in the summer twilight.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There are just some narrow water-lanes along which folk travel, and outside that it is all darkness.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This difference stretches and shears the bright knots, producing light and dark lanes in the disk.

(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)

Holmes and I followed them down the lane, and my friend plucked at my sleeve as we came out.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So they up-ended ’im, they did, an’ they made a lane for ’im an’ cheered ’im to give ’im ’eart, though ’e never lacked for that.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)