commercial

English

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Etymology

commerce +‎ -ial

Pronunciation

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Noun

commercial (plural commercials)

1. An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.

Hyponyms

• infomercial

Hypernyms

• advertisement

Translations

advertisement in a common media format

• Arabic: إعلان تجاري (ar) ('i3laan tijaariy) m
• Bulgarian: реклама (bg) (rekláma) f 
• Catalan: anunci m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣告 (cmn), 广告 (cmn) (guǎnggào)

• Czech: reklama (cs) f
• Dutch: reclamespot (nl)
• Finnish: mainos (fi)
• French: publicité (fr) f
• German: Werbung (de) f
• Greek: διαφήμιση (el) (diafímisi) f 

• Hebrew: פרסומת (he) (pirsomet) f
• Hungarian: reklám (hu)
• Japanese: コマーシャル (ja) (komāsharu), シーエム (ja) (shīemu), ＣＭ (ja)
• Macedonian: реклама (mk) (rekláma) f, ЕПП (mk) (e pe pe) n
• Norwegian: reklame (no) m, annonse (no) m
• Polish: reklama (pl) f
• Portuguese: anúncio (pt) m, comercial (pt) m
• Russian: реклама (ru) (rekláma) f 
• Slovak: reklama (sk) f
• Spanish: anuncio (es) m, comercial (es) m
• Turkish: reklam (tr)

Adjective

commercial (comparative more commercial, superlative most commercial)

1. Of or pertaining to commerce.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     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.

Translations

of or pertaining to commerce

• Arabic: تجاري (ar) (tijaariy)
• Bulgarian: комерсиален (bg) (komersialen), търговски (bg) (tǎrgovski)
• Catalan: comercial (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 商業 (cmn), 商业 (cmn) (shāngyè)

• Czech: obchodní (cs), komerční (cs)
• Dutch: commercieel (nl)
• Esperanto: komerca (eo)
• Finnish: kaupallinen (fi)
• German: kommerziell (de)

• Greek: εμπορικός (el) (emporikós)
• Hebrew: מסחרי (miskhary) m, מסחרית (miskharyt) f
• Hungarian: kereskedelmi (hu)
• Japanese: 商業の (ja) (しょうぎょうの, shōgyō-no)
• Macedonian: стопански (mk) (stópanski) m, трговски (mk) (t'rgovski) m, комерцијален (mk) (komercijálen) m
• Persian: تجاری (fa) (tejâri)
• Romanian: comercial (ro) m and n, comercială (ro) f
• Russian: торговый (ru) (torgóvyj) , коммерческий (ru) (kommérčeskij) 
• Serbo-Croatian: komercijalan (sh), trgovački (sh)

Related terms

• commerce
• commercialize
• precommercial

External links

• commercial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• commercial in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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French

Etymology

commerce +‎ -al

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal/
• Homophones: commerciale, commerciales

Adjective

commercial m (feminine commerciale, masculine plural commerciaux, feminine plural commerciales)

1. commercial

Noun

commercial m (plural commerciaux)

1. a salesman