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domestic definition

do·mes·tic (dō mes′tik, də-)

adjective

  1. having to do with the home or housekeeping; of the house or family domestic joys
  2. of one's own country or the country referred to
  3. made or produced in the home country; native domestic wine
  4. domesticated; tame: said of animals
  5. enjoying and attentive to the home and family life

Etymology: ME < OFr domestique < L domesticus < domus: see dome

noun

  1. a servant for the home, as a maid or cook
  2. native products
  3. sheets, blankets, towels, etc.

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domestic Synonyms

domestic

modif.

  1. Relating or devoted to home

    home, household, familial, family, home-loving, devoted to one's family, homely, homelike, homey, domesticated, fond of home, stay-at-home, devoted to the lares and penates, liking one's own fireside, quiet, sedentary, indoor, tame, settled, residential, private, internal, national, interstate, inland (British); see also home 1, tranquil 1.

    Antonyms unruly*, roving*, foreign. *

  2. Home-grown

    indigenous, native, handcrafted, homemade; see homemade, native 2.


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domestic Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • violence: Domestic violence affects 1 in 4 women at some point in their adult lives.

Modifying Another Word

  • purely: Shareholders in key, purely domestic French companies may face more hurdles if they want to sell to foreigners.

Used with adjective complement

  • include: Including domestic, civil, criminal and commercial cases.
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domestic quotes

I've never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

-Bennett, Alan

   Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

-Gibbon, Edward

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