domestic

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[ UK /dəmˈɛstɪk/ ]
[ US /dəˈmɛstɪk/ ]

ADJECTIVE

of or involving the home or family
everything sounded very peaceful and domestic
an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste
domestic worries
domestic happiness
they share the domestic chores
converted or adapted to domestic use
domesticated plants like maize
domestic animals
of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation
domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction
of or relating to the home
domestic servant
domestic science
produced in a particular country
domestic oil
domestic wine

NOUN

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How To Use domestic In A Sentence

Interior spaces may also be gendered: the author explores both the activities particular to women, such as needlework or lace-making, and the objects related to female and maternal domesticity.
One page of the menu is devoted to cheeses (domestic and imported), another to charcuterie, salads, meat and fish, the third to items from the wood-burning oven.
More volunteers follow with lurid tales of domestic mishaps, each earning applause. Times, Sunday Times
As for the problem…one wonders if the africanized honeybee is having similar problems or if it is limited to the “domesticated” variety. Bees still alive and buzzing | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.
They glimpsed each other across grocery counters and in the forced intimacy of domestic service now gone out of style.
Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. Preface to Shakespeare
Forget about the digital divide - it's the domestic divide that really cleaves this country in two.
His domestic policy is unjust, inhumane, fiscally irresponsible, and amazingly uninformed.
The other group migrated into South America, where it survives today as wild guanacos and vicunas and domesticated llamas and alpacas.

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