Synonyms for lane

Grammar : Noun

Spell : leyn

Phonetic Transcription : leɪn

Top 10 synonyms for lane

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Définition of lane

Origin : Old English lane, lanu "narrow hedged-in road," common Germanic (cf. 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.

noun road

Example sentences :

On the homeward way they turned into a lane and came to a clump of catnip.
Extract from : « A Night Out » by Edward Peple

And now, looking down the lane among the trees, he saw men surge into it.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

It stood off from the high road, in Black's Lane, at the head of the town.
Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair

She took it up the lane to the place where the man is; and they put it behind the palings.
Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair

I should very much, sir; but Mr. Lane is set against racing.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

Crane drove back to the village and went at once to the cashier, Mr. Lane's house.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

Lane repeated in a drier, more severe tone than he had used before.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

I tried to take it in to Mr. Lane and say that I had found it.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

This dislike had been strengthened by the chance meeting in the lane.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

Down in the pasture at the end of the lane lived an old woodchuck.
Extract from : « A Little Book of Profitable Tales » by Eugene Field

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