traffic
“
For it turns out that many of those word-laden galleons that visit American shores also return home with their hulls stuffed with American exports: the traffic is two-way.
View all »Definitions (30)
American Heritage Dictionary (10)
- noun The passage of people or vehicles along routes of transportation.
- noun Vehicles or pedestrians in transit: heavy traffic on the turnpike; stopped oncoming traffic to let the children cross.
- noun The commercial exchange of goods; trade.
Century Dictionary (11)
GNU Webster's 1913 (3)
WordNet (6)
Elsewhere on the web
View all » Examples
- The chief showed the same curiosity evinced by his tribe generally, to obtain information concerning the United States, of which they knew little but what they derived through their cousins, the Upper Nez Perces; as their traffic is almost exclusively with the British traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. — The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
-
For it turns out that many of those word-laden galleons that visit American shores also return home with their hulls stuffed with American exports: the traffic is two-way.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1 - H-e" 'm-i-g-h't" -h-a'v-e" -c-o'm-e" -a-c'r-o's's" 's-o'm-e't-h-i-n-g" 't-h-e" 'v-a'l-u-e" -o-f" -w-h-i-c-h" -h-e" -n-e'v-e'r" -k-n-e-w-. — Masterpieces in Miniature
- You wouldn't get any walk-in traffic from the Boardwalk casinos. — Music to My Sorrow
- 'I'm supposed to be meeting a Sergeant Harris at Wood Street police station in a little while and the traffic is the very devil. — Whispers Of Betrayal
Stats
Traffic has been looked up 322 times, favorited 0 times, listed 10 times, commented on 0 times, and has a Scrabble score of 15.
On Twitter
View all »Etymologies (5)
American Heritage Dictionary (1)
- French trafic, from Old French trafique, from Old Italian traffico, from trafficare, to trade, perhaps from Catalan trafegar, to decant, from Vulgar Latin *trānsfaecāre : trāns-, trans- + faex, faec-, dregs; see feces.