In Sydney you'd better be riding the clutch and completely in sync with the traffic lights so that your car is already moving as they turn green.
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Traffic light
/ˈtɹæˌfɪk laɪt/
Synonyms for "traffic light" (73 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (36)
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153 translations across 86 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- robot noun (signalling device)
- verkeerslig noun (signalling device)
Albanian
1 entries- semafor noun (signalling device)
Arabic
4 entries- إشارة noun (signalling device)
- إِشَارَة noun (signalling device)
- إِشَارَة ضَوْئِيَّة noun (signalling device)
- إِشَارَة مُرُور noun (signalling device)
Armenian
1 entries- լուսացույց noun (signalling device)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
1 entries- ܢܝܼܫܲܢܩܵܐ ܕܡܲܪܕܝܼܬܵܐ noun (signalling device)
Asturian
1 entries- semáforu noun (signalling device)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- işıqfor noun (signalling device)
- yol işığı noun (signalling device)
Bashkir
1 entries- светофор noun (signalling device)
Basque
1 entries- semaforo noun (signalling device)
Belarusian
1 entries- святлафо́р noun (signalling device)
Bengali
1 entries- সিগনাল noun (signalling device)
Bulgarian
1 entries- светофа́р noun (signalling device)
Burmese
1 entries- မီးပွိုင့် noun (signalling device)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- семафо́р noun (signalling device)
Catalan
1 entries- semàfor noun (signalling device)
Chinese
2 entries- 紅青燈 /红青灯 noun (signalling device)
- 青紅燈 /青红灯 noun (signalling device)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 交通燈 /交通灯 noun (signalling device)
- 紅綠燈 /红绿灯 noun (signalling device)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 信號燈 /信号灯 noun (signalling device)
- 紅綠燈 /红绿灯 noun (signalling device)
- 紅青燈 /红青灯 noun (signalling device)
Czech
2 entries- semafor noun (signalling device)
- světelné signalizační zařízení noun (signalling device)
Danish
3 entries- lyskurv noun (signalling device)
- lyssignal noun (signalling device)
- trafiklys noun (signalling device)
Dutch
2 entries- stoplicht noun (signalling device)
- verkeerslicht noun (signalling device)
Eastern Min Chinese
1 entries- 紅綠燈 /红绿灯 noun (signalling device)
Elfdalian
1 entries- trafikliuos noun (signalling device)
Esperanto
2 entries- semaforo noun (signalling device)
- trafiklumoj noun (signalling device)
Estonian
1 entries- valgusfoor noun (signalling device)
Faroese
1 entries- ferðsluljós noun (signalling device)
Finnish
1 entries- liikennevalot noun (signalling device)
French
4 entries- feu noun (signalling device)
- feu de circulation noun (signalling device)
- feu de signalisation noun (signalling device)
- feu tricolore noun (signalling device)
Fula
2 entries- pooye laawol noun (signalling device)
- 𞤨𞤮𞥅𞤴𞤫 𞤤𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮𞤤 noun (signalling device)
Galician
1 entries- semáforo noun (signalling device)
Georgian
1 entries- შუქნიშანი noun (signalling device)
German
3 entries- Ampel noun (signalling device)
- Robot noun (signalling device)
- Verkehrsampel noun (signalling device)
Greek
1 entries- φανάρι noun (signalling device)
Hakka Chinese
2 entries- 紅綠燈 /红绿灯 noun (signalling device)
- 紅青燈 /红青灯 noun (signalling device)
Hebrew
1 entries- רַמְזוֹר noun (signalling device)
Hindi
4 entries- ट्रैफ़िक लाइट noun (signalling device)
- ट्रैफ़िक सिग्नल noun (signalling device)
- यातायात बत्ती noun (signalling device)
- रोबोट noun (signalling device)
Hungarian
3 entries- jelzőlámpa noun (signalling device)
- közlekedési lámpa noun (signalling device)
- stoplámpa noun (signalling device)
Icelandic
1 entries- umferðarljós noun (signalling device)
Indonesian
3 entries- alat pemberi isyarat lalu lintas noun (signalling device)
- lampu lalu lintas noun (signalling device)
- lampu merah noun (signalling device)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- چِراغِ راهْنَمایی noun (signalling device)
Irish
1 entries- solas tráchta noun (signalling device)
Italian
1 entries- semaforo noun (signalling device)
Japanese
4 entries- ゴーストップ noun (signalling device)
- 交通信号 noun (signalling device)
- 信号 noun (signalling device)
- 信号機 noun (signalling device)
Kazakh
1 entries- бағдаршам noun (signalling device)
Khmer
1 entries- ពន្លឺចរាចរណ៍ noun (signalling device)
Korean
1 entries- 신호등 noun (signalling device)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- белгишам noun (signalling device)
- светофор noun (signalling device)
Ladino
2 entries- lampas de trafik noun (signalling device)
- luzes de tráfiko noun (signalling device)
Lao
2 entries- ໄຟຈະລາຈອນ noun (signalling device)
- ໄຟສັນຍານຈໍລະຈອນ noun (signalling device)
Latin
1 entries- sēmaphorum noun (signalling device)
Latvian
2 entries- luksofors noun (signalling device)
- svetofors noun (signalling device)
Lithuanian
1 entries- šviesoforas noun (signalling device)
Macedonian
1 entries- семафо́р noun (signalling device)
Malay
2 entries- lampu isyarat noun (signalling device)
- lampu trafik noun (signalling device)
Maltese
1 entries- dawl tat-traffiku noun (signalling device)
Mongolian
3 entries- гэрлэн дохио noun (signalling device)
- дохионы гэрэл noun (signalling device)
- замын гэрэл noun (signalling device)
Norman
1 entries- veue d'trafi noun (signalling device)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- lembaya trafîkê noun (signalling device)
- trafoyê noun (signalling device)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- trafikklys noun (signalling device)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- trafikklys noun (signalling device)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- семафор noun (signalling device)
Pashto
1 entries- ترافیکي څراغونه noun (signalling device)
Polish
4 entries- sygnalizacja noun (signalling device)
- sygnalizator świetlny noun (signalling device)
- światła drogowe noun (signalling device)
- światło sygnalizacyjne noun (signalling device)
Portuguese
4 entries- (Florianópolis) sinaleira noun (signalling device)
- farol noun (signalling device)
- semáforo noun (signalling device)
- sinal noun (signalling device)
Romanian
1 entries- semafor noun (signalling device)
Russian
1 entries- светофо́р noun (signalling device)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- svetlokaz noun (signalling device)
- sȅmafōr noun (signalling device)
- светлоказ noun (signalling device)
- се̏мафо̄р noun (signalling device)
Slovak
1 entries- semafor noun (signalling device)
Slovene
1 entries- semafor noun (signalling device)
Spanish
1 entries- semáforo noun (signalling device)
Swedish
2 entries- trafikljus noun (signalling device)
- trafiksignal noun (signalling device)
Tagalog
1 entries- ilaw-trapiko noun (signalling device)
Tajik
2 entries- светофор noun (signalling device)
- чароғи раҳнамо noun (signalling device)
Tamil
1 entries- குறிகை விளக்கு noun (signalling device)
Thai
2 entries- สัญญาณไฟจราจร noun (signalling device)
- ไฟจราจร noun (signalling device)
Turkish
1 entries- trafik ışığı noun (signalling device)
Turkmen
2 entries- swetofor noun (signalling device)
- ýolyşyk noun (signalling device)
Ukrainian
1 entries- світлофо́р noun (signalling device)
Urdu
3 entries- ٹْرَیفِک سِگْنَل noun (signalling device)
- ٹْرَیفِک لائِٹ noun (signalling device)
- ٹْرَیفِک لائِٹْس noun (signalling device)
Uyghur
3 entries- قاتناش سىگنالى noun (signalling device)
- قاتناش چىرىغى noun (signalling device)
- قىزىل-يېشىل چىراغ noun (signalling device)
Uzbek
1 entries- svetofor noun (signalling device)
Venetan
1 entries- semàfero noun (signalling device)
Vietnamese
4 entries- đèn giao thông noun (signalling device)
- đèn hiệu noun (signalling device)
- đèn hiệu giao thông noun (signalling device)
- đèn xanh đèn đỏ noun (signalling device)
Welsh
2 entries- goleuad traffig noun (signalling device)
- goleuadau noun (signalling device)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 紅綠燈 /红绿灯 noun (signalling device)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאָרסיגנאַל noun (signalling device)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
How do I get to the hospital? ~ You go straight on to the traffic lights, then turn left at the traffic lights and the hospital is on your right.
Source: wiktionary
The Department of Health recommends that food packaging display the recommended daily intake with a traffic light system, for ease of understanding.
Source: wiktionary