[ UK /dəmˈɛstɪk/ ]
[ US /dəˈmɛstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  2. converted or adapted to domestic use
    domesticated plants like maize
    domestic animals
  3. of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation
    domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction
  4. of or relating to the home
    domestic servant
    domestic science
  5. produced in a particular country
    domestic oil
    domestic wine
NOUN
  1. a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household

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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