English Explanatory Dictionary

commercial

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
  2. A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
  3. A commercial traveller.
  4. A male prostitute.
adj
  1. Of or pertaining to commerce.
  2. Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
  3. Designating such an airplane flight.

Pronunciation

/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/ /kəˈmɝ.ʃəl/ en-us-commercial.ogg /kəˈmøː.ʃəl/

Word forms

commercial commercials more commercial most commercial

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Late Latin con- Proto-Italic *merks Late Latin merx Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Late Latin -ium Late Latin commercium Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Late 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.

Related words

commerce commercialize precommercial

Derived words

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