lane

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lane/leɪn/

▶noun

• 1 a narrow road, especially in a rural area.

  ■ [in place names] an urban street.

• 2 a division of a road intended to separate single lines of traffic according to speed or direction.

• 3 each of a number of parallel strips of track or water for runners, rowers, or swimmers in a race.

• 4 a path or course prescribed for or regularly followed by ships or aircraft.

– derivatives
-laned adjective.

– origin OE: of unknown ultimate origin.