lane
pronunciation
How to pronounce lane in British English:
UK [leɪn]
How to pronounce lane in American English:
US [leɪn]
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- Noun:
- a narrow way or road
- a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic
Word Origin
- lane (n.)
- Old English lane, lanu "narrow hedged-in road," common Germanic (cognates: 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.
Example
- 1. In one beijing traffic jam , three different buick minivans were idling in the lane next to mine .
- 2. More concretely she initiated crowd-funding for a new bike lane in berlin , a legacy that the lab now leaves behind .
- 3. In recent years brazil has outplayed mexico , growing at 6 % or more as mexico bumped along in the slow lane .
- 4. Who could resist a three-bedroom , two-bathroom house on east paradise lane , in the subdivision of shangri-la ?
- 5. Darkness sheathed the lane in deep shadow .