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 (zh), 广告 (zh) (guǎnggào) Czech: reklama (cs) f. Dutch: reclamespot (nl) 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, w: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), търговски (bg) Catalan: comercial (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 商業 (zh), 商业 (zh) (shāngyè) Czech: obchodní (cs), komerční (cs) Dutch: commercieel (nl) Esperanto: komerca (eo) German: kommerziell (de) Greek: εμπορικός (el)

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. (f. commerciale, m. plural commerciaux, f. plural commerciales)

1. commercial

Noun

commercial m. (plural commerciaux)

1. a salesman