Dictionary

commercial en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (General-American) audio
• /kəˈmɝ.ʃəl/ (Canada, General-American)
• /kəˈmøː.ʃəl/ (New-Zealand)
• /kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/ (Australia)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Italic *merks Latin merx Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin commercium Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin commerciālislbor. French commercialbor. English commercial From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to commerce.
   • A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view. 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
2. Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
3. Designating such an airplane flight.

Forms

Deriveds

commercial banking · countercommercial · non-commercial · politicocommercial · commercial paper · asset-backed commercial paper · ultracommercial · commercial model · Commercial End · commercial off-the-shelf · supercommercial · commercial at · commerciality · commercialise · e-commercial · commercial room · commercialist · commercial bank · commercial letter of credit · resimercial · commercially · uncommercial · anticommercial · commercialese · semicommercial · commercialism · commercial law · commercial invoice · noncommercial · aerocommercial

Relateds

commerce · commercialize · precommercial

Translations (55)

cs komerční (of or pertaining to commerce) · ka კომერციალური (of or pertaining to commerce) · mr व्यापारविषयक (of or pertaining to commerce) · de gewerblich (of or pertaining to commerce) · de Handels- (of or pertaining to commerce) · es comercial (of or pertaining to commerce) · fi kaupallinen (of or pertaining to commerce) · cs obchodní (of or pertaining to commerce) · da handels- (of or pertaining to commerce) · id komersial (of or pertaining to commerce) · ja 商業の (of or pertaining to commerce) · pt comercial (of or pertaining to commerce) · lv tirdzniecisks (of or pertaining to commerce) · hi वाणिज्यिक (of or pertaining to commerce) · ka სავაჭრო (of or pertaining to commerce) · bg търговски (of or pertaining to commerce) · bg комерсиален (of or pertaining to commerce) · ms perdagangan (of or pertaining to commerce) · ml വാണിജ്യ (of or pertaining to commerce) · mk комерција́лен (of or pertaining to commerce) · nl commercieel (of or pertaining to commerce) · uk комерційний (of or pertaining to commerce) · he מסחרי (of or pertaining to commerce) · mi arumoni (of or pertaining to commerce) · tl kalakalin (of or pertaining to commerce) · mr व्यापारी (of or pertaining to commerce) · de geschäftlich (of or pertaining to commerce) · ca comercial (of or pertaining to commerce) · ar تِجَارِيّ (of or pertaining to commerce) · de kommerziell (of or pertaining to commerce) · sh trgovački (of or pertaining to commerce) · kk коммерциялық (of or pertaining to commerce) · mk стопански (of or pertaining to commerce) · grc ἐμπορικός (of or pertaining to commerce) · ru торго́вый (of or pertaining to commerce) · hy առեւտրային (of or pertaining to commerce) · eo komerca (of or pertaining to commerce) · sh komercijalan (of or pertaining to commerce) · ro comercial (of or pertaining to commerce) · mk трговски (of or pertaining to commerce) · mr वाणिज्यिक (of or pertaining to commerce) · pl komercyjny (of or pertaining to commerce) · it commerciale (of or pertaining to commerce) · el εμπορικός (of or pertaining to commerce) · lv veikalniecisks (of or pertaining to commerce) · da erhvervs- (of or pertaining to commerce) · fr commercial (of or pertaining to commerce) · th เชิงพาณิชย์ (of or pertaining to commerce) · da kommerciel (of or pertaining to commerce) · ms komersil (of or pertaining to commerce) · gl comercial (of or pertaining to commerce) · cmn 商業 /商业 (of or pertaining to commerce) · ru комме́рческий (of or pertaining to commerce) · hu kereskedelmi (of or pertaining to commerce) · fa تجاری (of or pertaining to commerce)

commercial en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (General-American) audio
• /kəˈmɝ.ʃəl/ (Canada, General-American)
• /kəˈmøː.ʃəl/ (New-Zealand)
• /kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/ (Australia)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Italic *merks Latin merx Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin commercium Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin commerciālislbor. French commercialbor. English commercial From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.

Meanings

1. An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
   • She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.
2. A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
3. (obsolete) A commercial traveller.
   • ‘I’ve seen him take things and lift them into a dray - things that - that - that - well, that you and me together couldn’t lift an inch!’ ‘Go on!’ and the commercial again squinted in the direction of Dan. 1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 84:
   • Five persons went to the house after the milkman was gone, and that there Arab party was safe inside, — three of them was commercials, that I know, because afterwards they came to me. 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
   • I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot. 1875, George Worsley, Advice to the Young!, page 32:
4. (slang) A male prostitute.
   • With the commercials there is no intensity of feeling and no later animosity; there is emotional and sexual fakery, but no prolonged post-sexual bargaining. […] Paradoxically these boys dissociate themselves from the commercials, yet engage in prostitution only when they require the money. 1987, Paul William Mathews, Male Prostitution: Two Monographs, page 39:
   • Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder. 1972, Alfred Eustace Parker, The Berkeley Police Story, page 133:

Forms

Deriveds

commercial break · infomercial · e-commercial · intromercial · documercial · fictomercial

Hypernyms

advertisement

Hyponyms

infomercial

Translations (46)

es publicidad (advertisement in a common media format) · da reklame (advertisement in a common media format) · ja コマーシャル (advertisement in a common media format) · pt comercial (advertisement in a common media format) · ca anunci (advertisement in a common media format) · tr reklam (advertisement in a common media format) · hy գովազդ (advertisement in a common media format) · es anuncio (advertisement in a common media format) · uk рекла́ма (advertisement in a common media format) · fa آنونس (advertisement in a common media format) · hu reklám (advertisement in a common media format) · ro reclamă (advertisement in a common media format) · cs reklama (advertisement in a common media format) · he פִּרְסוֹמֶת (advertisement in a common media format) · ko 씨에프 (advertisement in a common media format) · pl reklama (advertisement in a common media format) · ru рекла́ма (advertisement in a common media format) · fr publicité (advertisement in a common media format) · fi mainos (advertisement in a common media format) · es spot (advertisement in a common media format) · gl anuncio (advertisement in a common media format) · mk ЕПП (advertisement in a common media format) · es comercial (advertisement in a common media format) · pt anúncio (advertisement in a common media format) · id iklan (advertisement in a common media format) · pt propaganda (advertisement in a common media format) · no annonse (advertisement in a common media format) · sk reklama (advertisement in a common media format) · ja ＣＭ (shīemu) (advertisement in a common media format) · ja シーエム (advertisement in a common media format) · mk рекла́ма (advertisement in a common media format) · el διαφήμιση (advertisement in a common media format) · bg рекла́ма (advertisement in a common media format) · nl reclamespot (advertisement in a common media format) · de Werbespot (advertisement in a common media format) · ar إِعْلَان تِجَارِيّ (advertisement in a common media format) · da reklamefilmen (advertisement in a common media format) · de Werbung (advertisement in a common media format) · ko CF (ssiepeu) (advertisement in a common media format) · ms iklan (advertisement in a common media format) · he תַּשְׁדִּיר (advertisement in a common media format) · no reklame (advertisement in a common media format) · hi विज्ञापन (advertisement in a common media format) · cmn 廣告 /广告 (advertisement in a common media format) · fo lýsing (advertisement in a common media format) · fa آگهی بازرگانی (advertisement in a common media format)