traffic

CEFRA1

/ˈtɹæfɪk/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The vehicles moving along a road or in an area.

  2. 02

    noun

    The movement of messages or data through a network.

Examples

  • At this hour, there is incredible traffic.

  • The sudden increase of cars is causing a large number of traffic accidents every day.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.

  2. The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.

  3. Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.

More examples

In context

  • There's always a lot of traffic at this time of day.

  • The traffic is slow during rush hour.

  • Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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.