lanelane /leɪn/ ●●● S3 W3 noun [countable] 
a quiet country lane2a road in a city, often used in road names: the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane a network of alleys and back lanes (=narrow unimportant roads, often behind a row of houses)3one of the two or three parallel areas on a road which are divided by painted lines to keep traffic apart: That idiot changed lanes without signalling.the inside/middle/outside lane Use the outside lane for overtaking only.the fast/slow lane Cars in the fast lane were travelling at over 80 miles an hour.three-lane motorway/highway/road → bus lane, cycle lane4one of the narrow parallel areas marked for each competitor in a running or swimming race5a line or course along which ships or aircraft regularly travel between ports or airports: busy shipping lanes → life in the fast lane at fast lane(1), → walk/trip down memory lane at memory(7)
WORD ORIGINlane
Origin:
Old English lanuEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- busy shipping lanes
- That idiot changed lanes without signaling.
- The last stretch of road is a narrow lane bordered by trees.
- The Russian swimmer in lane 6 is in the lead.
- We rode our bicycles along pretty country lanes.
THESAURUStypes of road
a hard surface for cars, buses etc to drive on: · They’re planning to build a new road.· My address is 42, Station Road.
a road in a town, with houses or shops on each side: · She lives on our street.· We walked along the streets of the old town.· Oxford Street is one of Europe’s busiest shopping areas.· He was stopped by the police, driving the wrong way down a one-way street.· Turn left on Main Street (=the street in the middle of a town, where most of the shops are – used in American English).· These days the same shops are on every high street (=the street in the middle of a town, where most of the shops are – used in British English).
a road in a town, often with trees on each side: · the busy avenue in front of the cathedral· He lived on Park Avenue.
a wide road in a city or town – used especially in street names in the US, France etc. In the UK, streets are usually called avenue rather than boulevard: · the world-famous Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
a narrow road in the country: · a winding country lane
a short street which is closed at one end: · The house is situated in a quiet cul-de-sac in North Oxford.
especially British English, dirt road American English a narrow road in the country, usually without a hard surface: · The farm was down a bumpy track.
British English a road that goes around a town: · The airport is on the ring road.
British English a road that goes past a town, allowing traffic to avoid the centre: · The bypass would take heavy traffic out of the old city centre.
British English, divided highway American English a road with a barrier or strip of land in the middle that has lines of traffic travelling in each direction: · I waited until we were on the dual carriageway before I overtook him.
American English a very wide road in a city or between cities, on which cars can travel very fast without stopping: · Take the Hollywood Freeway (101) south, exit at Vine Street and drive east on Franklin Avenue.· Over on the side of the expressway, he saw an enormous sedan, up against a stone wall.
British English, highway American English a very wide road for travelling fast over long distances: · The speed limit on the motorway is 70 miles an hour.· the Pacific Coast Highway
American English a road for fast traffic that goes between states: · The accident happened on Interstate 84, about 10 miles east of Hartford.
a road that you pay to use: · The government is planning to introduce toll roads, in an effort to cut traffic congestion.
American English a large road for fast traffic that you pay to use: · He dropped her off at an entrance to the New Jersey Turnpike.
Longman Language Activatoroutside a town a road that connects towns or cities: · Route 66 used to be one of the main roads across the States.· I like driving on the French roads - they're so straight, and there isn't much traffic.road to: · As you leave the city, turn right and take the road to Madrid.
a narrow road in the countryside, connecting villages or farms: · The last stretch of road is a narrow lane bordered by trees.country lane: · We rode our bicycles along pretty country lanes.
a narrow road with a dirt or soil surface: · A dirt road ran from the highway past the dump and into some trees.· Rain fell continuously and turned the winding dirt road into a river of slippery mud.
British a narrow road, usually without a hard surface, leading to a farm or field: · The track was only wide enough for one car.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a quiet country lane a network of alleys and back lanes (=narrow unimportant roads, often behind a row of houses) That idiot changed lanes without signalling. Use the outside lane for overtaking only. Cars in the fast lane were travelling at over 80 miles an hour. busy shipping lanesCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES On the M40, there are lane closures near Oxford. Brenda is a lady who loves life in the fast lane.
a quiet country lane a network of alleys and back lanes (=narrow unimportant roads, often behind a row of houses) That idiot changed lanes without signalling. Use the outside lane for overtaking only. Cars in the fast lane were travelling at over 80 miles an hour. busy shipping lanes (=a part of the road where only buses are allowed to drive)· You can be fined for driving in a bus lane.
On the M40, there are lane closures near Oxford. (=part of a road that only cycles can use)· Cars are not allowed in the cycle lanes.
Brenda is a lady who loves life in the fast lane.· There are plans to build a new six-lane motorway through the area.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· The back lane, roughly on the line of the original through road, is exactly that.· Wolfenden had come and gone, but persecution was still abroad in the streets and back lanes of Tyneside.· Petitions for lighting in the back lanes of the Denes area and in Great Stainton were handed in.· The back lanes in the North Road area have been atrocious, people were dumping their rubbish in them.
· And yet he was happy in his lot, his circular fast lane.· One thing about driving a truck: it really is the fast lane into old age.· I pictured a man taking leave of his motor; wobbling from the fast lane towards the hard shoulder.· Many gay men rejected these connections and found long-term partners, often away from the hubbub of the emerging gay fast lane.· M2 from Dunsilly to Ballygrooby - fast lane closed in both directions.· For swimmers in the fast lane, it was 600 meters.· Change tack immediately and take urgent action to get some talented protégés into your fast lane.· Clive Phillips, the council estate dodger who had got on his bike and into the fast lane, had fired me.
· They suspect the trap may have been laid by people who want to stop motorcyclists from using green lanes.· Cross the road into a green lane following it to the Ffwddog road.· The path leads into a green lane.· The age and original purpose of this road, like that of many similar green lanes, are puzzling.· And the route passes through wooded river valleys and along green lanes.
· Huge jams built up behind the 74-year-old pensioner as he crawled for five miles along the inside lane of the dual-carriageway A1.· But this time I was prepared, hiding in the inside lane.· I was given the inside lane and I was furious and protested.· When they got out they saw a Vauxhall Astra, its front badly damaged, directly behind in the inside lane.· A single-decker yellow-and-black bus was travelling fast in the inside lane, its headlights dipped and no traffic immediately in front of it.· The repairs are being carried out to the bridge at Knayton and the inside lanes of both carriageways are closed.· Myeloski was trapped in the inside lane.· Traffic tailed back fourteen miles after police were forced to close the inside lane of the northbound carriageway.
· The weather is glorious, so we trot through the suburban roads and leafy lanes, and find a hitherto undiscovered park.· The village church, tucked away at the very end of a winding leafy lane, is dedicated to St Mary.· About three miles beyond the town we turn into a leafy lane leading to a farm.· In summer the dappled light of leafy lanes awaits you, while the rich colours of autumn are always worth enjoying.· Yanto's mind was busy as he meandered slowly through the leafy lanes towards Purton.
· The Yugo finally skidded to a halt upside down and straddling the middle lane.· She drove in the middle lane, skimming past lorries.· There he was, making a name for himself after all those years in racing's middle lane.
· I walk across the field to the gate and out into a narrow lane.· It confined transoceanic vessels to a few narrow shipping lanes that promised safe passage.· There is no bumping into the man in front as we cross the fields and move along the narrow Normandy lanes.· Peace in the squares and the narrow lanes, where hibiscus and bougainvillea climbed over sleepy walls.· They were now walking along a narrow lane that was no more than a rutted cart-track.· To the right, on the narrow dusty lane, lay the village school behind a row of white palings.· This pretty little village of narrow lanes and attractive cottages is in fact a Royal Village.· They fled after calling at a house where the vehicle was blocking a narrow country lane.
· Voice over On the M40, our police driver struggles to keep up with a car in the outside lane.· Allan was allowed in as a guest in the 200 metres, but was given the outside lane.· She was waiting in the outside lane of a busy road in St Helens to turn right when the accident happened.· In Sunday's final we were drawn in the outside lane.· At worst they see the future as two motorway lanes blocked with slow lorries with just the outside lane for the car driver.· In the final, I again had a good outside lane, which was important on this very tight 164 metres track.
· Julia smiled with delight. she was enjoying her walk down the quiet country lane towards the riverbank.· To me they would only ever belong among the gentle hills and quiet, winding lanes of Upper Killington.· It had happened in a quiet Nottinghamshire country lane.· Freddie felt his fear growing and he was running now through the quiet riverside lane.· There are quiet lanes and mountain paths, sunny terraces and beaches.· Our hotel, the four-star Elea Beach, stands off the main drag at the end of a quiet lane.· In this quiet lane there was an extravagance of wild flowers, a riot of colour.
· This extra width would also allow for right hand turning lanes to be incorporated at the junctions on to adjacent military land.· Jean got into the right hand lane to cross the bridge.
· As always since the Government came into power, we are in the slow lane.· Would you expect him to poke along in the slow lane?· It accelerated and moved into the slow lane, as he passed.· It was her decision to join me out here on the slow lane.· She tried to concentrate on driving, she got the car into the slow lane and looked down at her stomach again.· Old fogey that I am, after that I stayed in the slow lane, poking along at 80 or 90.· It was time to ease back over to the slow lane, take another off-ramp, let the car cool.
· The village church, tucked away at the very end of a winding leafy lane, is dedicated to St Mary.· Gubberford Lane is a winding country lane and for about a mile it is without footpaths.· I put my foot to the floor and screamed down the winding lane, standing on my brakes like a boy racer.· The van was already rolling along the winding lane out of sight.· It is a district of small houses set amidst winding lanes, quite cut off from the world.· The winding lanes and grey stillness of early autumn combined to soothe her spirit.· The head-lamps flashed over bushes and trees lining the sides of the narrow winding lane.· She peered out through the windscreen into the eerie blackness of the winding lane.
NOUN· A report by development services director Stephen Tapper says bus lanes produce considerable time savings by allowing public transport unrestricted access.· We don't want bus lanes on motorways and we don't want traffic jams.· They spent their time hiding behind low stone walls and leaping out at motorists travelling in bus lanes.· Extensive bus lane and priority traffic signalling is approved for Manchester.· The successful firm will also have to provide a contraflow bus lane for the authority.· Because the council has turned the whole damn place into a bus lane and you can't move any more.
· Julia smiled with delight. she was enjoying her walk down the quiet country lane towards the riverbank.· A far better alternative was to walk the back roads and country lanes.· A course that mixes open pasture, bridleways, forest tracks and country lanes undeniably favours the horse.· A country lane surrounding the house was sealed off and police from throughout the county were called to the scene.· Fancy taking in the quaint country lanes of Hampshire?· Grip and balance are remarkable for such a heavy car but this isn't one to hustle down country lanes.· This family lived between two farms up a narrow, deeply rutted country lane.· The traffic was quite heavy on the country lanes to Downshurst.
· Providing more pelican crossings, cycle lanes and residents' parking schemes.· Additionally, there are occasional examples of cycle lanes being carried in streets against the flow of one-way traffic systems.· Encouraging local councils, assisted by a special budget we have set aside, to introduce pedestrian priority areas and cycle lanes.
· Have a word with your Mazda dealer and take a test drive down memory lane.· Talk about a wondrous stroll down one whacked-out memory lane.· Today we're taking a stylish trip down memory lane.· We had a real trip down memory lane, talking about your grandmother as she was years ago.· Taking you down memory lane time and time again.· But the memory lane he points the audience down isn't one that starts in Britain.· It was a glimpse of the old Connors, fighting and refusing to walk down memory lane.· This will be a trip down memory lane for the right hon. Gentleman.
· His misery was compounded when he was fined for speeding in the pit lane.· The pit lane, though, reckons Red 5 will return.· But a pit lane full of Longines-Olivetti computer gear and Desert Storm-style motor-homes has reduced the role of these companions.
· Freighters, tankers and a modern fishing fleet trafficked the old sea lanes.· The disputed area also is part of an important sea lane for both commercial and military ships.
VERB· They were telephone poles that had fallen from a lorry, blocking both westbound lanes of the motorway and smashing a car.· In doing so, the rear trailer of the big-rig flipped over, blocking all lanes.· They fled after calling at a house where the vehicle was blocking a narrow country lane.
· H., for, he figures, changing lanes without flashing a warning sign.· I was just trying to change lanes to pass.
· Then she turned the car and drove off down the lane.· He drove across the five lanes toward the little sign.· The town ended sharply, and we were driving along a bumpy lane through the jungle at reckless speed.· Peoples, however, claimed he avoided the deputy by driving across both lanes of the highway.· Soon we were on our way to the city, driving down the centre lane reserved for official cars.· She drove in the middle lane, skimming past lorries.· She drove down the lane and past the pub, turning at last into her own drive.
· Now he could see to the lane that led to the pavillon.· About three miles beyond the town we turn into a leafy lane leading to a farm.· A gang of workmen put a fence up across the private lane leading to the house in Beaconsfield.· Three lanes lead off from it, four if you count the short length from the hospital.· She waited by the window to see if they would reappear in the lane which led into the woods.· The nearby lane leads to Sommerwell House, originally the family home of the powerful Playne clothier family.· Smaller paths and lanes frequently lead off the main holloway, but even this may be narrow and insignificant by modern standards.
· He passed through the lane at half-past one this morning, on his way home.· They passed down the lane between high hedges.
· He repeated his suicide run across the lanes again to take the Bradford exit.· I should have run, dark lane or no dark lane, and next time shall.· To his left ran a modest lane which meandered northward to several small villages.
· It confined transoceanic vessels to a few narrow shipping lanes that promised safe passage.· By 6 p. m., we were out of the shipping lanes.· We trudged across the main shipping lane with tankers and coasters hooting irritably at us to get out of the way.· The icebergs have a long journey south to the shipping lanes.· The moment we were across the shipping lane, we dropped the tow.
· The van had turned into the lane to Applewick - the lane that was crossed by the low bridge!· This extra width would also allow for right hand turning lanes to be incorporated at the junctions on to adjacent military land.· About three miles beyond the town we turn into a leafy lane leading to a farm.· They turned through lanes, and joined a motorway and left it.· She turned up a lane which was even steeper than the road she had just left.· By the time I turn into the little lane where I live it has become so intense that I usually slow down.
· This time I am the one walking along the lane and he is the one standing outside the gate.· You could smell prosperity as you walked down the lanes.· They were now walking along a narrow lane that was no more than a rutted cart-track.· I shall walk up the lane.· She walked towards the lanes of shops, the wind fluttering the ends of her scarf.· At some point during this silent debate Summerchild came walking up the lane.· At ten o'clock that evening, she walked back along the lane.· They walked down the lane and climbed over the stile to the footpath which led down to the river.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a narrow road in the countryside: - A far better alternative was to walk the back roads and country lanes.
- And this was how many such agents lived, in rooms in the back streets of cities.
- I have found one must speak slowly to people who live in the back streets of London.
- Iain and Tommy drank together on the back streets of Pinner.
- Now they left the main road for the quieter, dimmer back streets.
- People always honk at me for that so I try to take the back roads.
- That afternoon I drove nonstop over the back roads of Ames and Bern townships.
- The back lane, roughly on the line of the original through road, is exactly that.
- Cars in the fast lane were traveling at over 80 miles an hour.
- A single-decker yellow-and-black bus was travelling fast in the inside lane, its headlights dipped and no traffic immediately in front of it.
- But this time I was prepared, hiding in the inside lane.
- Huge jams built up behind the 74-year-old pensioner as he crawled for five miles along the inside lane of the dual-carriageway A1.
- I was given the inside lane and I was furious and protested.
- Myeloski was trapped in the inside lane.
- The repairs are being carried out to the bridge at Knayton and the inside lanes of both carriageways are closed.
- Traffic tailed back fourteen miles after police were forced to close the inside lane of the northbound carriageway.
- When they got out they saw a Vauxhall Astra, its front badly damaged, directly behind in the inside lane.
- So if anyone wants company for a walk down Memory Lane, I will gladly go with them.
- The doctor calls it a panic attack, I call it a trip down memory lane for big bro.
- This will be a trip down memory lane for the right hon. Gentleman.
- Allan was allowed in as a guest in the 200 metres, but was given the outside lane.
- At worst they see the future as two motorway lanes blocked with slow lorries with just the outside lane for the car driver.
- In Sunday's final we were drawn in the outside lane.
- She was waiting in the outside lane of a busy road in St Helens to turn right when the accident happened.
- Voice over On the M40, our police driver struggles to keep up with a car in the outside lane.
- As always since the Government came into power, we are in the slow lane.
- Old fogey that I am, after that I stayed in the slow lane, poking along at 80 or 90.
- Would you expect him to poke along in the slow lane?
a quiet country lane2a road in a city, often used in road names: the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane a network of alleys and back lanes (=narrow unimportant roads, often behind a row of houses)3one of the two or three parallel areas on a road which are divided by painted lines to keep traffic apart: That idiot changed lanes without signalling.the inside/middle/outside lane Use the outside lane for overtaking only.the fast/slow lane Cars in the fast lane were travelling at over 80 miles an hour.three-lane motorway/highway/road → bus lane, cycle lane4one of the narrow parallel areas marked for each competitor in a running or swimming race5a line or course along which ships or aircraft regularly travel between ports or airports: busy shipping lanes → life in the fast lane at fast lane(1), → walk/trip down memory lane at memory(7)