four-lane

1. 1.

   having two lanes for traffic in each direction

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Questions about four-lane

What does four-lane mean?

four-lane means "having two lanes for traffic in each direction".

How many syllables are in four-lane?

four-lane has 2 syllables and divides as four--lane under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is four-lane a common word?

four-lane is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.