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domestic

dəˈmɛstɪk
WordNet
Domestic life of the Batavians. Top right: ID Page. 394.
Domestic life of the Batavians. Top right: ID Page. 394.
  1. (adj) domestic
    produced in a particular country "domestic wine","domestic oil"
  2. (adj) domestic
    of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction"
  3. (adj) domestic
    of or involving the home or family "domestic worries","domestic happiness","they share the domestic chores","everything sounded very peaceful and domestic","an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste"
  4. (adj) domestic
    converted or adapted to domestic use "domestic animals","domesticated plants like maize"
  5. (adj) domestic
    of or relating to the home "domestic servant","domestic science"
  6. (n) domestic
    a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
Illustrations
Domestic life of the Batavians. Design for a print.
Domestic life of the Batavians. Design for a print.
A black domestic pig. Unnumbered. Marked with an asterisk at the top right. Part of the first album with drawings of four-legged friends. First of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
A black domestic pig. Unnumbered. Marked with an asterisk at the top right. Part of the first album with drawings of four-legged friends. First of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
Sheet with three separate depictions, cartoons about English domestic politics. A schoolmaster hits a boy with a clock on the back; a group of men talking to each other; a man on crutches carries the budget and a man on his back.
Sheet with three separate depictions, cartoons about English domestic politics. A schoolmaster hits a boy with a clock on the back; a group of men talking to each other; a man on crutches carries the budget and a man on his back.
Cartoon about English domestic politics. A protest procession of men holding banners with slogans by a carriage with the royal coat of arms.
Cartoon about English domestic politics. A protest procession of men holding banners with slogans by a carriage with the royal coat of arms.
Cartoon of English domestic politics, 1820. Depiction in two parts, on the left a group of politicians are booed and spat on by the people while the queen watches from a balcony, on the right a scene in the House of Commons.
Cartoon of English domestic politics, 1820. Depiction in two parts, on the left a group of politicians are booed and spat on by the people while the queen watches from a balcony, on the right a scene in the House of Commons.
Domestic pig (sow). Top left the name in nine languages. Number scratched up in the top right corner. Part of the first album with drawings of four-legged friends. First of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
Domestic pig (sow). Top left the name in nine languages. Number scratched up in the top right corner. Part of the first album with drawings of four-legged friends. First of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
Cartoon on English domestic politics, presented as the play 'Valentine and Orson' (Valentijn and Oursson). On the left a wild man with a club, on the right a knight in armor. With four lines of verse. On the back of the front cover of Monthly sheet of caricatures No. 72 'of December 1, 1835.
Cartoon on English domestic politics, presented as the play 'Valentine and Orson' (Valentijn and Oursson). On the left a wild man with a club, on the right a knight in armor. With four lines of verse. On the back of the front cover of Monthly sheet of caricatures No. 72 'of December 1, 1835.
Sheet with 9 representations of domestic scenes. Below each picture a six-line verse. Numbered top left: No. 139.
Sheet with 9 representations of domestic scenes. Below each picture a six-line verse. Numbered top left: No. 139.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
About 30% of Canadians rely on getting their water from the ground for their domestic use
  1. Domestic
    (Com) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.
  2. Domestic
    Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
  3. Domestic
    Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.
  4. Domestic
    Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. "His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong."
  5. Domestic
    One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. "The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic ."
  6. Domestic
    Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The Lion King is the top grossing Disney movie of all-time with domestic gross intake of $312 million
  1. domestic
    Relating or belonging to the home or household, or to household affairs; pertaining to one's place of residence, or to the affairs which concern it, or used in the conduct of such affairs: as, domestic concerns; domestic life; domestic duties; domestic servants; domestic animals.
  2. domestic
    Attached to the occupations of the home or the family; pertaining to home life, or to household affairs or interests: as, a domestic man or woman.
  3. domestic
    Pertaining to a nation considered as a family, or to one's own country; internal; not foreign: as, domestic dissensions; domestic goods; domestic trade.
  4. domestic
    Home-made: an epithet applied to certain cotton cloths of American manufacture. See II., 5.
  5. domestic
    Collectively, the styles or methods pursued in building for domestic purposes; the character or quality of domestic buildings: as, the domestic architecture of England as compared with that of France.
  6. (n) domestic
    A household servant; a servant residing with a family.
  7. (n) domestic
    A native of a country.
  8. (n) domestic
    An inmate of a house.
  9. (n) domestic
    A domicile; a home.
  10. (n) domestic
    plural Home-made cotton cloths, either bleached or unbleached, of the grades in common use, and neither printed nor dyed.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The silkworm moth has lost the ability to fly ever since it has been domesticated
  1. (adj) Domestic
    do-mes′tik belonging to the house: remaining much at home: private: tame: not foreign
  2. (n) Domestic
    a servant in the house:
  3. (n) Domestic
    (pl.) articles of home manufacture, esp. home-made cotton cloths
Quotations
George Steiner
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
George Steiner
William Shakespeare
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
William Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Max Lerner
Mae West
I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
Mae West
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
Arnold Toynbee
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. domesticus, fr. domus, use: cf. F. domestique,. See 1st Dome

Usage in the news

Hopefully, the positive track record of Wayne County's domestic violence prevention program will help to make sure funding continues. ayneindependent.com

The first crypto war revolved around the hardware-based Clipper Chip and coercing companies to deploy broken encryption with backdoors to enable domestic State spying. forbes.com

The hundreds of Hollywood and domestic Chinese titles covered by the on demand company's services will be available to the cable company's 1.6 million subscribers. hollywoodreporter.com

Beijing is running out of stimulative firepower with which to underwrite domestic consumption. online.wsj.com

Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis has recently published Whateverland: Learning to Live Here, a non-too-flattering book detailing her life with the domestic queen. csmonitor.com

Alexandra Kogut's death a cold reminder of domestic murder. ashingtonpost.com

The Oklahoma City bombing trial underway in Denver has refocused attention on domestic terrorism. pbs.org

After his father died when he was a year old, he was raised by his mother, a domestic worker, in Newark and East Orange, N.J. nytimes.com

Its four full quarters of Gross Domestic Product shrinkage brand this downturn as a full-blown recession, highlighted by a 4% (annualized) fall in GDP during the current quarter. bulktransporter.com

In a global market, domestic oil production has no effect on gas prices. keysnews.com

A southwestern Kansas shelter for victims of domestic and sexual violence has reopened after months of repairs. hutchnews.com

Dogtown Roadhouse in Floyd offers a collection of craft-brewed beers from local and domestic breweries. roanoke.com

The passage of the health care bill in the House of Representatives ended decades of gridlock on domestic affairs. theintermountain.com

The Cheese Culture, "A Whey of Life," has opened at 813 E Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, offering nearly 100 international and domestic cheeses. miami.com

The question of whether to extend Milwaukee Public Schools benefits to domestic partner s of employees will come back before a School Board committee next week. jsonline.com

Usage in scientific papers

Wind was supplied by four domestic fans calibrated to give a desired wind speed over the fuel bed.
A review of wildland fire spread modelling, 1990-present 2: Empirical and quasi-empirical models

This has changed – an individual with domestic broadband has enough computing power to do almost anything they want.
Enterprise Spreadsheet Management: A Necessary Good

Positive Euler characteristic: the domestic case.
Spectral analysis of finite dimensional algebras and singularities

Consider a canonical algebra Λ = Λ(p, λ) of domestic type, that is, χX > 0.
Spectral analysis of finite dimensional algebras and singularities

Real Gross Domestic Product, Chained Dollars.
Modelling real GDP per capita in the USA: cointegration test

Usage in literature

In this the creature differs from all other of our domesticated animals. "Domesticated Animals" by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

The alpaco is a domesticated animal, like the llama, but it is not used for carrying burdens. "Popular Adventure Tales" by Mayne Reid

The value of those destined for domestic service depends on character and qualifications. "Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests" by J. J. von Tschudi

Besides, your fancied success would unsettle your mind, and so tend to disturb the domestic equilibrium. "A Pessimist" by Robert Timsol

The widespread introduction of domestic science and elementary manual training renders any special discussion of them unnecessary. "The New Education" by Scott Nearing

No one can say of the modern English girl that she is tender, loving, retiring, or domestic. "Modern Women and What is Said of Them" by Anonymous

Much of the forest land in the Western Valley produces a fine range for domestic animals and swine. "A New Guide for Emigrants to the West" by J. M. Peck

Before the war domestic sources supplied a fourth to a third of the domestic demand for pyrite. "The Economic Aspect of Geology" by C. K. Leith

They had no sense of domestic virtue, and were victims of the most egregious superstitions. "Foot-prints of Travel" by Maturin M. Ballou

Skeleton of Domestic Ox, from a specimen in the Royal College of Surgeons. "Delineations of the Ox Tribe" by George Vasey

Usage in poetry
In all the ups and downs of life—
Of which they've had their share—
They never knew domestic strife,
Or, if at all, 'twas rare.
Through length'ning years' successive flight
Thy fondness still had power
To shed its narrow line of light
On life's domestic hour;
Amid the virtuous and the good,
Of womankind she stands alone,
Unconscious of her priceless worth -
A queen on her domestic throne.
Too dangerous solitude appear'd;
He seeks the shelter of the crowd;
Amid the flock's domestic herd
His harmless head he hopes to shroud.
For to increase their nuptial joy
And their domestic scene adorn;
Heaven crown'd their blessings with a boy,
A finer boy was never born.
"But I have never taken yet
A strict domestic part,
And in my flurry I forget
The Five Good Rules of Etiquette
We have to know by heart."