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UK
/dəmˈɛstɪk/
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[ US /dəˈmɛstɪk/ ]
[ US /dəˈmɛstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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
- a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
How To Use domestic In A Sentence
- 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 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. Mansfield Park
- 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
- 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.
