domestic

Speech parts

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

Synonyms

domesticated national house home local indigenous internal native household servant inward maid housekeeper tame domiciliary
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Antonyms

foreign wild undomestic king bureau counteraction
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Hypernyms

servant retainer

Hyponyms

maid housekeeper maidservant slavey housemaid amah

Phrases with the word

domestic work domestic art multi-domestic domestic sewage domestic politics domestic policies

Anagrams

docetism comedist cosmetid demotics

Examples

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

Close letter words and terms

domeshaped domesiah domesman domestic act domestic activity domestic affairs