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domestic

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1. domestic - Noun

2. domestic - Adjective

3. domestic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.

Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.

Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.

Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.

Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.

One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.

Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign. Mae West

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution. Learned Hand

If men were now to turn their hostility towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic cat becomes a wild animal. Nigerian Proverb

There is no household without domestic fight. Bengali Proverb

Pig and wife are the tamest domestic animals. Finnish Proverb

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