commercial
UK/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl//kəˈmɝ.ʃəl/
commercial noun: an advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
Noun
commercial (plural commercials)
- An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
- She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.
- A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
- A commercial traveller.
- 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
- 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
- A male prostitute.
- 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
- 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
Adjective
commercial (comparative more commercial, superlative most commercial)
- 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
- Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
- Designating such an airplane flight.
commercial meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
commercial in Hindi
- advertisement in a common media format
- विज्ञापन vijñāpan
- of or pertaining to commerce
- वाणिज्यिक vāṇijyik
commercial in Tamil
- வணிகரீதியான, வணிக, விற்பனைக்குரிய, வர்த்தக ரீதியான
commercial in Marathi
- of or pertaining to commerce
- वाणिज्यिक vāṇijyik, व्यापारविषयक vyāpārviṣyak, व्यापारी vyāpārī
commercial in Urdu
- تاجرانہ, تجارتی
More languagesFewer languages
- commercial in Bengali
- ব্যবসায়িক, বাণিজি্যক
- commercial in Malayalam
- വാണിജ്യ vāṇijya
- commercial in Kannada
- ವ್ಯಾಪಾರದ, ವಾಣಿಜ್ಯದ, ವ್ಯಾಪಾರೀ, ಲಾಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸಕ್ತಿಯಿರುವ
- commercial in Tagalog
- kalakalin
- commercial in Arabic
- إِعْلَان تِجَارِيّ ʔiʕlān tijāriyy, تِجَارِيّ tijāriyy
- commercial in Malay
- iklan, perdagangan, komersil
- commercial in Indonesian
- iklan, komersial
- commercial in Persian
- آگهی بازرگانی âgahi ye bâzargâni, آنونس ânons, تجاری tejâri
- commercial in Thai
- เชิงพาณิชย์ choeng-pha-nit
Examples of commercial in a sentence
- The Wonder Bread advertising research results showed the “White Picket Fence” commercial had strong fit ratings.
- He bought the land on spec — he thinks it's likely to be rezoned commercial and subdivided.
- Large modern commercial aircraft have a nose landing gear and two main landing gears.
Forms of commercial
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | commercials |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more commercial |
| superlative | most commercial |
Origin of commercial
From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.
Words formed from commercial
- 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
Phrases with commercial
Questions about commercial
- What does commercial mean?
- Commercial means an advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
- What is commercial in Hindi?
- Commercial in Hindi is विज्ञापन (vijñāpan), वाणिज्यिक (vāṇijyik). See Commercial meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is commercial?
- Commercial can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce commercial?
- Commercial is pronounced /kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of commercial?
- The plural of commercial is commercials.
Words near commercial in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: commercial (page history and authors); commercial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commercial (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commercial (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commercial (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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