com

¹

[ kom, see-oh-em ]

1. (on the internet) a top-level domain appearing as a suffix on domain names used for commercial establishments.

COM

²

[ kom ]

noun

1. Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
2. computer output on microfilm.

com-

³

1. a prefix meaning “with,” “together,” “in association,” and (with intensive force) “completely,” occurring in loanwords from Latin ( commit ): used in the formation of compound words before b, p, m: combine; compare; commingle.

com.

⁴

abbreviation for

1. comedy.
2. comma.
3. command.
4. commander.
5. commerce.
6. commercial.
7. commission.
8. commissioner.
9. committee.
10. common.
11. commonly.
12. communications.

Com.

⁵

abbreviation for

1. Commander.
2. Commission.
3. Commissioner.
4. Committee.
5. Commodore.
6. Commonwealth.

com-

¹

prefix

1. together; with; jointly

   commingle

COM

²

/ kɒm /

noun

1. 1. a process in which a computer output is converted direct to microfiche or film, esp 35 or 16 millimetre film
   2. ( as modifier )

      a COM machine

Com.

³

abbreviation for

1. Commander
2. committee
3. Commodore

com

⁴

the internet domain name for

1. a commercial company

.com

1. Part of the Internet address of many companies and organizations. It indicates that the site is commercial, as opposed to educational or governmental.

Notes

The phrase dot-com is used to refer generically to almost anything connected to business on the Internet .

The explosive growth of wealth connected to the Internet in the 1990s is often said to have created many “dot-com millionaires.”

Word History and Origins

Origin of com¹

First recorded in 1980–85; shortening of commercial ( def ) or company ( def )

Origin of com²

< Latin, variant of preposition cum with

Word History and Origins

Origin of com¹

from Latin com-; related to cum with. In compound words of Latin origin, com- becomes col- and cor- before l and r, co- before gn, h, and most vowels, and con- before consonants other than b, p, and m. Although its sense in compounds of Latin derivation is often obscured, it means: together, with, etc ( combine, compile ) ; similar ( conform ); extremely, completely ( consecrate )

Origin of com²

( C ) omputer ( O ) utput on ( M ) icrofilm