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commerce

noun
/ˈkɒm.əs/UK/ˈkɑ.mɚs/US/ˈkɒm.ɚs/CA/ˈkɔm.əs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium. Doublet of comess.

  1. derived from commercium
  2. borrowed from commerce

Definitions

  1. The exchange or buying and selling of commodities

    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.

  2. Social intercourse

    Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

    • 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.

  3. Sexual intercourse.

    • carnal commerce
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or…

      An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

    2. To carry on trade

      To carry on trade; to traffic.

      • [A]lwaies beware you commerce not with bankrupts, […]

    3. To hold conversation

      To hold conversation; to communicate.

      • No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]
      • Musicians […] taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.

    4. A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

The neighborhood

Derived

anticommerce, biocommerce, chamber of commerce, Commerce City, commerce destroyer, commerceless, commerce raider, commerce raiding, commerciable, commercial, conversational commerce, cybercommerce, ecommerce, Incoterm, s-commerce, telecommerce

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at commerce. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01commerce02trade03investment04investing05invest06money07exchange08trading

A definitional loop anchored at commerce. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at commerce

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA