English Explanatory Dictionary

traffic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
  2. The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
  3. The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
  4. The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
  5. Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
  6. The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc., in a publication.
  7. The commodities of the market.
verb
  1. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
  2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
  3. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
adj
  1. Congested.

Pronunciation

trăf'ĭk /ˈtɹæfɪk/ En-us-traffic.ogg

Word forms

traffic traffics traffick traffique trafficking trafficked more traffic most traffic

Etymology

From 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-”). The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective.

Synonyms

travel trafficking trade

Derived words

5 o'clock traffic advanced traffic management air traffic air traffic control air traffic controller brain traffic byway open to all traffic centralised traffic control dark traffic felony traffic stop foot traffic go and play in the traffic go and play in traffic go play in the traffic go play in traffic go with the flow of traffic mall traffic mixed-traffic nontraffic non-traffic stop traffic through traffic traffic advisory traffic barrel traffic barrier traffic beam traffic boy traffic bump traffic calming traffic circle traffic code traffic cone traffic conference area traffic cop traffic court traffic drum traffic-free traffic furniture traffic garden traffic generator traffic island traffic jam traffic lead traffic leash traffic-light traffic light traffic mile traffic officer traffic of influence traffic paddle traffic park traffic police traffic shaping traffic sign traffic signal traffic signal box traffic spikes traffic stop traffic stopper traffic ticket

Translations

Albanian: trafik Amharic: ትራፊክ Arabic: مُرُور Armenian: երթեւեկություն Armenian: երթևեկություն Armenian: երթևեկում Azerbaijani: yol hərəkəti Azerbaijani: hərəkət Bashkir: хәрәкәт Bashkir: юл хәрәкәте Basque: trafiko Belarusian: рух Belarusian: тра́фік Bulgarian: движе́ние Bulgarian: тра́фик Burmese: အသွားအလာ Catalan: trànsit Catalan: circulació Catalan: tràfic Chinese Cantonese: 交通 Chinese Mandarin: 交通 Chinese Mandarin: 流量 Czech: doprava Czech: provoz Danish: trafik Danish: færdsel Dutch: verkeer Esperanto: trafiko Estonian: liiklus Finnish: liikenne Finnish: tietoliikenne French: circulation French: trafic Galician: tráfico Georgian: მოძრაობა German: Verkehr German: Personenverkehr German: Datenverkehr Bavarian German: Vakea Hebrew: תְּנוּעָה Hebrew: עומס Hindi: यातायात Hindi: परिवहन Hindi: संपर्क Hindi: संवाद Hungarian: forgalom Icelandic: umferð Ido: trafiko Indonesian: lalu lintas Irish: trácht Italian: traffico Italian: viabilità Japanese: 交通 Japanese: 交信 Japanese: トラフィック Kazakh: қозғалыс Khmer: ចរាចរ Korean: 교통 Korean: 교신 Korean: 트래픽 Kyrgyz: кыймыл Lao: ຈາລະຈອນ Latin: transitus Latvian: satiksme
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