traffic signal

1. 1.

   a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections

   Synonymstraffic lightstoplight

   Broaderlight

   Narrowergreen lightred lightyellow light

Questions about traffic signal

What does traffic signal mean?

traffic signal means "a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections".

What is another word for traffic signal?

Close synonyms include traffic light, stoplight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is traffic signal a common word?

traffic signal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.