English Explanatory Dictionary

domestic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Of or relating to the home.
Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
Internal to a specific country.
Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.

noun

A maid or household servant.
A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.

Pronunciation

/dəˈmɛs.tɪk/ /-stək/ en-us-domestic.ogg /dəˈmes.tɪk/

Word forms

domestic more domestic most domestic domestick domestics

Etymology

From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).

Synonyms

Antonyms

adventurous social wild feral foreign global

Related words

domesticate domesticated domestication domesticity

Derived words

antidomestic domesticable domestically domestic appliance domestic arts domestic blindness domestic cat domestic debt domestic dependent nation domestic dispute domestic dog domestic duck domestic engineer domestic enquiry domestic goddess domestic guinea pig domestic helper domestic hot water domestic inquiry domesticise domesticize domestic partner domestic partnership domestic pigeon domestic policy domestic policy council domestic science domestic sciences domestic servant domestic service domestic sheep domestic terrorism domestic violence domestic worker domicide electrodomestic extradomestic gross domestic product interdomestic intermestic intradomestic nondomestic peridomestic predomestic semidomestic undomestic

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