merchant

businessperson who trades in commodities that were produced by others
Intangible profession Q215536
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merchant

Summary

merchant is a profession[1]. merchant ranks in the top 6% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (865 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • merchant's instance of is recorded as profession[3].
  • merchant's instance of is recorded as social class[4].
  • merchant is a type of businessperson[5].
  • merchant is a type of trader[6].
  • merchant is a type of economic agent[7].
  • merchant's Commons category is recorded as Merchants[8].
  • merchant's field of this occupation is recorded as trading[9].
  • merchant's said to be the same as is recorded as tradesperson[10].
  • merchant's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Merchants[11].
  • merchant's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[12].
  • merchant's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • merchant's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • merchant's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[15].
  • merchant's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[16].
  • merchant's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[17].
  • merchant's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • merchant's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[19].
  • merchant's owner of is recorded as merchant's house[20].
  • merchant's different from is recorded as Q17367106[21].
  • merchant's different from is recorded as sole proprietorship[22].
  • merchant's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Kauffrau'}[23].
  • merchant's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'купчиха'}[24].
  • merchant's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'cs', 'text': 'obchodnice'}[25].
  • merchant's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'handelaarster'}[26].
  • merchant's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'marchande'}[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include profession[3] and social class[4]. Recorded subclass of include businessperson[5], trader[6], and economic agent[7].

Influence

Things named for merchant include Piazza Mercanti[28], a square[29], in Italy[30]; Kaufmann[31], a family name[32], in Germany[33]; and Köpmangatan[34], a street[35], in Sweden[36].

Why It Matters

merchant ranks in the top 6% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (865 views/month).[2] merchant has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] merchant is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Entities named for merchant include Piazza Mercanti[28], a square[29], in Italy[30]; Kaufmann[31], a family name[32], in Germany[33]; and Köpmangatan[34], a street[35], in Sweden[36].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [34] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Stuartyeates · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of
    Said to be the same as tradesperson
    Owner of merchant's house
    Aliases
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