Commerce vs Commercial - What's the difference?
commerce | commercial | Derived terms |
(business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
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(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
(dated) To carry on trade; to traffic.
(dated) To hold intercourse; to commune.
Of or pertaining to commerce.
* 1900 , , Chapter I,
Commercial is a related term of commerce.
Commercial is a derived term of commerce.
As nouns the difference between commerce and commercial
is that commerce is the exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic while commercial is an advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.As a verb commerce
is to carry on trade; to traffic.As an adjective commercial is
of or pertaining to commerce.commerce
English
Noun
- Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
- Suppose we held our converse not in words, but in music; those who have a bad ear would find themselves cut off from all near commerce , and no better than foreigners in this big world.
- (Hoyle)
Synonyms
* trade, traffic, dealings, intercourse, interchange, communion, communication * See alsoDerived terms
* chamber of commerce * commercialVerb
(commerc)- Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. -B. Jonson.
- Commercing with himself. -Tennyson.
- Musicians ... taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. -Prof. Wilson.
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English
Hyponyms
* infomercialHypernyms
* advertisementAdjective
(en adjective)- 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.