noun

• (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
• A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
• A narrow road, as in the country.
• A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
• A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
• Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
• A course designated for ships or aircraft.
• (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
• (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
• (computing) Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
• (video games) In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
• (horse racing) The home stretch.
• A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a lane.
• A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic] anglicised from various Irish surnames.
• A male given name transferred from the surname.
• A female given name.
• A number of places in the United States:
• An unincorporated community in Idaho.
• A city in Kansas.
• An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Nebraska, taken from the surname.
• An unincorporated community in Oklahoma.
• A town in South Carolina.
• A town in South Dakota.
• A hamlet in Newquay parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8260).
• A hamlet near Holme, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1005).
• (UK, informal, as "the Lane") The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.