domestic vs foreign
Definitions
adjective
- of or involving the home or family
- converted or adapted to domestic use
- of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation
- of or relating to the home
- produced in a particular country
noun
- a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
Examples
As for the problem…one wonders if the africanized honeybee is having similar problems or if it is limited to the “domesticated” variety.
The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.
-- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head.
Definitions
adjective
- not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source
- relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
- not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
- of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)
Examples
You can't expect to learn a foreign language in a few months.
There are a few formalities to be gone through before you enter a foreign country.
They contended that many foreign central banks were willing to absorb all the foreign currency earned by their exporting sectors that was not willingly held by their private sector in US dollar denominated assets.
