: having or involving more than one lane (see lane entry 1 sense 2b) for travel in each direction
a multilane highway/street/bridge
multilane traffic

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Helicopter images aired on state television showed a crowd stretching from Tehran’s Azadi, or Freedom, Square for miles down a multilane street of the same name. Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026 Helicopter images aired on Iranian state television showed a massive crowd stretching from Tehran’s Azadi, or Freedom, Square for kilometers (miles) down a multilane street of the same name. ABC News, 5 July 2026 This includes multilane expressways where cars speed alongside, and in some cases above, the water. Pauline J. Yao, Artforum, 2 May 2026 Each orbital altitude is like a traffic lane on a multilane highway. Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for multilane

Word History

First Known Use

1929, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of multilane was in 1929

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“Multilane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multilane. Accessed 20 Jul. 2026.

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