laner

See also: låner

English

Etymology 1

lane +‎ -er (relational suffix)

Noun

laner (plural laners)

1. (video games) In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a player who focuses on enemy characters traversing a particular "lane" or path on the map.

See also

• pather

Etymology 2

lane +‎ -er (measurement suffix)

Noun

laner (plural laners)

1. (in combination) A highway with a specified number of lanes.
   • 2011 December 2, Beth Collins, “10 record-breaking bridges”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The eight-laner is traversed by an estimated 80,000 vehicles, as many as 1 million pedestrians – and countless cows each day.

   • 2012 January 6, James Kunstler, “Eyesore of the Month - January 2012”, in Kunstler‎^[2]:

     Get a load of where our heads are at in the USA as 2012 arrives on the scene. Family Fun Walk on a nine-laner, anyone?

   • 2012 February 28, Lou Powsner, “Lou: The Gowanus Expressway was a mistake”, in Brooklyn Paper‎^[3]:

     Before the state began its transformation then, we wrote a column criticizing Commissioner Van Ten Eyck’s idea of the tearing down the four-laner after completing the six-laner.

   • 2012 June 6, Molly Harrison, “Rules of the Road”, in Outer Banks This Week‎^[4]:

     Let's begin with the most confounding of the local roads - U.S. Highway 158, aka The Bypass, Croatan Highway, The Big Road, through Nags Head, KDH and Kitty Hawk. It's a five-laner, two lanes running in opposite directions with a center lane up the middle, and it's that center lane that gets people.

   • 2018 September 5, Joseph Dits, “Lincoln Way to be repaved as 3 lanes to calm traffic in Mishawaka”, in South Bend Tribune‎^[5]:

     Wood said the city took that idea from Union Street, which it had converted to a three-laner between Dragoon Trail and downtown after the city took over that road from the state. In 1999, the state moved the Indiana 331 designation from Union, Church and Main streets to Capital.

   • 2020 January 31, Tom Stienstra, “Sunday Drive: Palomares Two-Laner”, in SFGATE‎^[6]:

     This country two-laner runs at the center of a deep valley along Palomares Creek (for about 5 miles) in the heart of rural ranch country.

   • 2023 August 9, Caleb Taylor, “'Just unforgivable': Ivey West Alabama Corridor would exhaust state borrowing capacity, put required funding match for I-65 widening out of reach, says state lawmaker”, in 1819 News‎^[7]:

     "But I said, what can I do for this great state? 'You can make a six-laner,'" he declared. "Does everyone agree that's a big deal? OK, we'll do that first day."

   • 2024 April 27, Corbbin Goldsmith, “The Time I Gave the Finger to a Turtle”, in Medium‎^[8]:

     He turned left to go down the same dirt road that led down to my school. It was a one-laner, if two cars met, one would have to back out until the pull out — of which there were two.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Tommy Connor, David Joannides, Claire Yang, “Buford Highway”, in ScholarBlogs‎^[9]:

     Voted one of the ten “Worst Streets in America” by the Congress for the New Urbanism, Buford Highway can be described as “a seven-laner flanked by low-income garden apartments, ‘with no sidealks^[sic] and two miles between traffic lights'” (Jeff Speck). Speck noted that “the biggest risks that people faced were coming from the built environment”.

Anagrams

• Laren, Larne, Learn, learn, neral, renal