- a narrow way or passage between hedges, fences, walls, or houses.
- 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.
- 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.
- lone.
- a male given name.
- a narrow road or way between buildings, hedges, fences, etc
- (capital as part of a street name)
- 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
- lone or alone
- on one's own
