traffic
Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereofMoving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
» The traffic light changed to red.
Die Verkehrsampel wurde rot.
Die Ampel wurde rot.
Сигнал светофора сменился на красный.
Загорелся красный свет.
На светофоре загорелся красный.
Сигнал світлофора змінився на червоний.
Meaning
8 senses(uncountable, usually)Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
The traffic is slow during rush hour.
Verkehr, Personenverkehr
движе́ниеdvižénije, тра́фикtráfik
рухrux, тра́фікtráfik
(uncountable, usually)The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
Verkehr, Warenverkehr
торго́вляtorgóvlja
торгі́вляtorhívlja
(uncountable, usually)A flow of customers for a store or restaurant.
Sales are down due to a decline in store traffic.
(uncountable, usually)The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
торго́вляtorgóvlja
(uncountable, usually)The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
Verkehr, Datenverkehr
тра́фикtráfik
тра́фікtráfik
The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
(uncountable, usually)Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
(uncountable, usually)The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc., in a publication.
(uncountable, usually)The commodities of the market.
- buying and selling; especially illicit trade
- the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
- the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
- social or verbal interchange (usually followed by ‘with’)
Examples
1128 sentencesThe traffic light changed to red.
Сигнал світлофора змінився на червоний.
ruСигнал светофора сменился на красный.
deDie Verkehrsampel wurde rot.
The traffic lights were all red.
Всі світлофори були червоними.
deDie Ampeln waren alle rot.
How did the traffic accident happen?
Як сталася ця аварія?
ruКак эта дорожная авария произошла?
deWie kam es zu dem Verkehrsunfall?
We must pay attention to traffic signals.
Нам треба звертати увагу на сигнал світлофора.
ruМы должны уделять внимание сигналам светофора.
deWir müssen die Ampel beachten.
He got injured in the traffic accident.
Він постраждав в дорожньо-транспортній пригоді.
ruОн пострадал в дорожном происшествии.
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
By meaning 3
Origin
From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) fromFrom Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).
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Forms
plural: trafficsSynonyms
3 synonyms- social or verbal interchange (usually followed by ‘with’):dealings
Word family
58 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2City and transport — Because the lesson uses it
- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- a traffic accident
- traffic accident
- in a traffic
- a traffic jam
- traffic jam
- the traffic accident
- stuck in traffic
- heavy traffic
- rush hour traffic
- traffic light
- lot of traffic
- the heavy traffic