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domestication

[ UK /dəmˌɛstɪkˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /dəˌmɛstəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. adaptation to intimate association with human beings
  2. accommodation to domestic life
    her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication
  3. the attribute of having been domesticated

How To Use domestication In A Sentence

  • Of particular significance to ancient Arabia was the domestication of the dromedary (one-humped camel) in the southern part of the peninsula between 3000 and 2500 B.C.E.
  • MAVUSO MBHEKISENI: People were educated, through what we call domestication, that they should love one party, because that party gave them-will give them freedom. Democracy Now!
  • Hardly a week goes by that I don't see another variation on the "serialism is to blame for classical's marginalization" trope, but I could just as easily argue that said marginalization correlates nicely with both the abandonment of experimental modernism and the domestication of radical minimalism. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
  • The domestication of plants from their wild progenitors has led to the production of a wide variety of crops that share a number of traits.
  • Despite her understanding of the pitfalls of domestication, however, she never gives up her claims to freedom or to a home for her family.
  • What are we to make of a woman who sells female domestication in a honey-hued voice but behind the cameras acts like a tough-as-nails male CEO?
  • - pens, eggshells, remains, etc., further suggest long-term domestication localized in the southwestern United States. Research Blogging - All Topics - English
  • From these considerations, I shall devote the first chapter of this abstract to variation under domestication.
  • But this perspective is not universally shared; other thinkers argue that domestication has effectively bred the wildness out of animals.
  • The domestication of crops, particularly cereals, was the central achievement of the Neolithic revolution 12 000 years ago in south-east Turkey.
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