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lane
1[ leyn ]
noun
- a narrow way or passage between hedges, fences, walls, or houses.
Synonyms: alley
- any narrow or well-defined passage, track, channel, or course.
- 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):
a new six-lane turnpike.
- a fixed route followed by ocean steamers or airplanes.
- (in a running or swimming race) the marked-off space or path within which a competitor must remain during the course of a race.
- a long, narrow wooden track that a ball rolls down in a game of bowling.
- an area of interest or expertise that is associated with a person or group whose contributions or authority in that area are respected:
Teen magazines should stay in their lane and stick to publishing articles about relationships, style, and beauty.
- Politics. an affiliation or faction that presents one path to nomination or election victory for candidates who espouse that ideology or embody its ideals:
The libertarian candidates siphoned voters away from the conservative establishment lane in the primary.
- (in a MOBA video game) one of the major arteries on the map between the two strongholds in which the fighting between characters occurs:
Our strategy is to push with a support character in the top lane.
lane
2[ leyn ]
adjective
- lone.
Lane
3[ leyn ]
noun
- a male given name.
lane
1/ leɪn /
adjective
- lone or alone
- one's lane or on one's laneon one's own
lane
2/ leɪn /
noun
- a narrow road or way between buildings, hedges, fences, etc
- ( capital as part of a street name )
Drury Lane
- any of the parallel strips into which the carriageway of a major road or motorway is divided
- any narrow well-defined route or course for ships or aircraft
- one of the parallel strips into which a running track or swimming bath is divided for races
- the long strip of wooden flooring down which balls are bowled in a bowling alley
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Idioms and Phrases
- by one's lane. lonesome ( def 4 ).
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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