domestic
English
Alternative forms
- domestick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌdəˈmɛ.stɪk/, /-stək/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstɪk
- Hyphenation: do‧mes‧tic
Adjective
domestic (comparative more domestic, superlative most domestic)
- Of or relating to the home.
- 1994, George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert in Violet Quill:
- “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
- 1994, George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert in Violet Quill:
- Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
- domestic violence; domestic hot water
- (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
- 1890, US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
- It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
- 1890, US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
- Internal to a specific country.
- 1996, Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, Internationalization and Domestic Politics:
- The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
- 1996, Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, Internationalization and Domestic Politics:
- Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.
- 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):
- Homosexual men were non-warlike and homosexual women non-domestic, so that their energies sought different outlets from those of ordinary men and women; they became the initiators of new activities.
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Synonyms
- (of or relating to the home): bourgeois, civilized, comfortable
- (kept by someone): domesticated
Antonyms
- (of or relating to the home): adventurous, social
- (local): foreign, global
- (kept by someone): wild, feral
Derived terms
- domestic appliance
- domestic arts
- domestic blindness
- domestic cat
- domestic debt
- domestic dispute
- domestic duck
- domestic engineer
- domestic enquiry
- domestic goddess
- domestic hot water
- domestic inquiry
- domestic partner
- domestic partnership
- domestic pigeon
- domestic policy
- domestic policy council
- domestic science
- domestic sciences
- domestic servant
- domestic sheep
- domestic terrorism
- domestic violence
- domestic worker
- gross domestic product
Translations
of or relating to the home
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of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur
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(of a domesticated animal) kept by someone
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internal to a specific country
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Noun
domestic (plural domestics)
- A maid or household servant.
- 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Duty and Inclination, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, page 244:
- Her fears thus prevailing, she communicated them to her mother as soon as the object of them had retired, who not in the least participating in them, they gradually subsided; but for an interval only, for, when retired to her chamber, during the hours of repose, every sound intimidated her; the growling of their faithful dog, or a halfsuppressed bark, brought the looks of the new domestic again before her sight.
- 1992, Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A.
- New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestics.
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- A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.
- 2005, Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence in Whatcom County (read on the Whatcom County website at on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal domestics” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.
- 2010, Harry Keeble, Baby X: Britain’s Child Abusers Brought to Justice, →ISBN, page 153:
- Nobody wanted to join the 'Cardigan Squad' – so-called because Child Protection officers were seen as woolly, glorified social workers that mopped up after domestics.
Translations
household servant
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domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent
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Related terms
- domesticate
- domesticated
- domestication
- domesticity
Anagrams
- comedist, cosmetid, demotics, docetism
Interlingua
Adjective
domestic (not comparable)
- domestic, domesticated, pertaining to homes, home life or husbandry
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French domestique, Latin domesticus. Largely replaced earlier dumesnic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /doˈmes.tik/
Adjective
domestic m or n (feminine singular domestică, masculine plural domestici, feminine and neuter plural domestice)
- domestic (of or relating to the home)
- (of animals) domestic
Declension
Declension of domestic
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | domestic | domestică | domestici | domestice | ||
| definite | domesticul | domestica | domesticii | domesticele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | domestic | domestice | domestici | domestice | ||
| definite | domesticului | domesticei | domesticilor | domesticelor | |||
Synonyms
- (of or related to the house): casnic
Related terms
- domestici
- domesticitate