lane

Definition

A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.

Etymology

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”). 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”).

Example Sentences

• "Penny Lane"
• "There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane."
• "Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away / From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra."