commercial
//kəˈmɜː.ʃəl//
Forms
- Plural
- commercials
- Comparative
- more commercial
- Superlative
- most commercial
Definitions
1.An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
- She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.
2.A male prostitute.(slang)
- Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder.
3.A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
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.
2.Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
3.Designating such an airplane flight.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1383
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
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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 -ius
Latin -ium
Latin commercium