Domestic

Adjective

 * 1) Of or related to the home.
 * 2) * 1994, George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert in Violet Quill:
 * “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
 * 1) Of or related to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
 * 2) * See, for example, domestic violence, domestic hot water
 * 3)  Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
 * 4) * 1890, US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
 * It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
 * 1) Internal to a specific country.
 * 2) * 1996, Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, Internationalization and Domestic Politics:
 * The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.

Noun

 * 1) A house servant; a maid.
 * 2) * Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A. - New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestics.
 * 3) A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent
 * 4) * 2005: Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence in Whatcom County (read on the Whatcom County website at[] on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal domestics” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.

Adverbs for Domestic
incurably; delightfully; cozily; comfortably; exaggeratedly; elaborately; ostentatiously; blatantly; offensively; conspicuously; hopelessly; charmingly; narrowly; insistently; flamboyantly; proudly; absurdly; impressively; vexatiously; boundlessly; entirely; pretentiously.

Synonyms for Domestic

 * bourgeois, civilized, comfortable
 * domesticated, tame, gentle
 * internal, household, native, home

Antonyms for Domestic

 * adventurous, social
 * foreign
 * wild, feral, untamed, savage

Derived terms

 * domestic cat
 * domestic hot water
 * domestic violence

Thesaurus
anchoritic, autochthonous, cloistered, domal, domestic servant, domesticated, domiciliary, drudge, eremitic, family, help, hermitic, hermitish, hired help, home, household, housekeeper, indigenous, inland, internal, intestine, manorial, mansional, menial, municipal, national, native, palatial, private, recluse, residential, residentiary, scullion, sequestered, servant, servitor, shut in, shut up, slavey, stay-at-home, steward, subdued, submissive, tame, turnspit

Etymology
From domesticus: < domus:.

Pronunciation




Adjective

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: տնային
 * Bulgarian: домашен, семеен
 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 家庭的
 * Finnish: koti-, perhe-


 * French:
 * Hebrew: ביתי (beity)
 * Korean: 가정의
 * Macedonian: домашен
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,


 * Armenian: տնային
 * Finnish: koti-, perhe-, kotitalous-


 * Macedonian: домашен
 * Polish:


 * Armenian:, տնային
 * Bulgarian: питомен
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: koti- (-> kotieläin), kesy


 * Hungarian: házi
 * Macedonian: домашно
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, domesticada


 * Armenian: հայրենական
 * Bulgarian: местен
 * Finnish: kotimaan (genitive of a noun), kotimaan-, kotimainen,,  sisäasia (enitive of a noun)
 * Hebrew: פנימי (pnimy)


 * Hungarian: hazai, belföldi
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: домашен
 * Polish: krajowy


 * : tuzeman

Noun

 * Bulgarian: домашна помощница
 * Finnish: kotiapulainen, piika
 * German:, Domestike


 * Macedonian: куќен помошник, куќна момошничка
 * Portuguese: empregada doméstica,


 * Finnish:


 * Macedonian: фамилијарен, семеен

Related terms

 * domesticate
 * domesticated


 * domestication
 * domesticity

Anagrams

 * docetism

Etymology
Borrowed from domestique,  domesticus. Largely replaced earlier dumesnic.

Adjective

 * 1)  (of or related to the home)

Synonyms

 * (1) casnic

Related terms

 * domestica