Meaning of "traffic flowed past"?

[alice-5]

What does " traffic flowed past" mean?

 

[5jj]

I have changed your title to something that tells us what the thread is about. Your original title, Meaning, told us nothing.

 

[emsr2d2]

What does "traffic flowed past" mean?

Please give us the full sentence in which you saw those three words in that order.
Don't put a space after opening quotation marks.

 

[alice-5]

I saw the provided sentence in a dictionary.

 

[emsr2d2]

I saw the provided sentence in a dictionary.

Those three words do not constitute a sentence. Please give us the complete sentence.

 

[jutfrank]

Also, since you have a dictionary there, you could look up the words 'traffic' and 'flow' and 'past' and try to put their meanings together.

 

[teechar]

I'd also like to know which dictionary you're referring to.

If you're wondering about the collocation of "traffic" and "flow", I can tell you that it's natural in English. Think of traffic as a stream of vehicles and/or pedestrians.

In case you're wondering about the meaning of "past" in that kind of sentence, then look at the broader context. It (past) means: past the observer or past some other point or location mentioned in that context.

 

[Edward B]

Imagine water flowing under a bridge you're standing on, then change the water to cars.