laner
/ˈleɪnəɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a player who focuses on enemy characters traversing a particular "lane" or path on the map.
Example Sentences
- "Though teams from China have hoisted the Summoner’s Cup, which goes to the Worlds champion, it’s always been South Korean mid laners who have starred on those teams. Erzberger said Knight wants to be the first Chinese mid laner to hoist that trophy — and maybe become a national treasure himself."
- "The eight-laner is traversed by an estimated 80,000 vehicles, as many as 1 million pedestrians – and countless cows each day."
- "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?"
- "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."
- "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."
- "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”."