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Lane

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //leɪn//

A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a lane.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a lane.

  2. 2

    A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic] anglicised from various Irish surnames.

  3. 3

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

  4. 4

    A female given name.

  5. 5

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Kootenai County, Idaho.

  6. 6

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.

  7. 7

    A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Franklin County, Kansas.

  8. 8

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Nebraska, taken from the surname.

  9. 9

    A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Atoka County, Oklahoma.

  10. 10

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Williamsburg County, South Carolina.

  11. 11

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Jerauld County, South Dakota.

  12. 12

    A hamlet in Colan parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8260).

  13. 13

    A hamlet near Holme, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1005).

  14. 14

    informalThe Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

    It was a gala night at the Lane, with Charles Mathews coming over from Covent Garden […]

Etymology

As an English surname, from lane; as an Irish surname, from several origins, including Laighin. See Lane.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).